Abstract

In Chile, since year 2011-2012, a national social movement developed. It sought criticizing the commodification of education and promoting structural modifications to the capitalist-neoliberalist model that nourished it. As university teachers and students, the authors of this paper were part of this movement. This social antagonism put us in a problematic subject position, between the ideals of vindication and revolution of the movement and the managerial logics of academia. For teachers, to openly join the demonstrations meant to bite the hand that feeds you. It is that (im)possibility of participation and the subjective tensions it implied what we want to narrate and analyze in this work.