Professor School of Anthropology Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Studies CIIR
Gabriel Piña’s work focuses on childhood, interculturality and citizenship. Her topics of interest are: the ways in which indigenous children and youth understand the political realities of their communities, their processes of subjectivation, participatory methodologies for working with children, and reflection on the political place of childhood and indigenous peoples.
Her PhD thesis, entitled “The Path of the senses: Kinship, Intimacy and Sensory Experience in Pehuen Mapu, Chile”, was based on 18 months of fieldwork in a Pehuenche community and comprises an ethnographic exploration of intimate relationships that begin in homes and expand into shared spaces. It shows how shared sensory experiences act as vehicles for sociability, and how children are introduced into these dynamics.
She has participated in various research and projects with UNESCO, the Ministry of Arts, Cultures and Heritage and the Intercultural Bilingual Education Program of the Ministry of Education, as well as the Applied Studies Area. In recent years, she has collaborated in citizen participation processes for the 2022 and 2023 constituent proposals.
Dr. Gabriela Piña will guide the Will someone please think of the children? The challenges of thinking through diverse contemporary childhoods in Latin America workshop together with Ana Carolina Hecht from Faculty of Philosophy and Letters Universidad de Buenos Aires.
