GABRIEL IGNACIO RIVAS CASTRO
UnIVERSITY DIEGO PORTALES (CHILE)
Universität Kassel | Nora-Platiel-Straße 1 | 34127 Kassel
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BIOGRAPHY
Gabriel Rivas is a postdoctoral fellow at Diego Portales University (Chile) and researches the forms of mining rent appropriation in Latin America, focusing on the role of foreign capital. He has a doctorate in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and a master’s degree in economics from the University of Arts and Social Sciences (Arcis). Gabriel’s research has centered on the problems of South American economic development and the dynamics of the struggle for appropriating wealth that determines social life, focusing on Chile in particular. He has also worked on social conflict and rent appropriation and its impact on Chilean social life.
SHORT
BIOGRAPHY
Gabriel Rivas is a postdoctoral fellow at Diego Portales University (Chile) and researches the forms of mining rent appropriation in Latin America, focusing on the role of foreign capital. He has a doctorate in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and a master’s degree in economics from the University of Arts and Social Sciences (Arcis). Gabriel’s research has centered on the problems of South American economic development and the dynamics of the struggle for appropriating wealth that determines social life, focusing on Chile in particular. He has also worked on social conflict and rent appropriation and its impact on Chilean social life.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROJECT
Gabriel Rivas explores the presence of foreign mining capital in Chile, and a solid qualitative framework for developing data and empirical material on the subject guides his works. Therefore, he contributes to Extractivism’s focus on understanding the dynamics of economic life in the Global South and its role as part of the global market.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Rivas Castro, G, Fuentes, M. and Riquelme C. (2024). “Ser social y acción política del movimiento estudiantil chileno de 2011. Contribución a la crítica de la conciencia “antineoliberal”.” Autoctonía, Revista de Ciencias Sociales e Historia, 1195-1231.
Dachevsky, F. and Rivas Castro, G. (2024).” La crisis general en la expansión de la plusvalía relativa. Una crítica a la mirada económica del capital,” Ápeiron, Estudios de Filosofía, 20, 137-163.
Rivas Castro, G. and Kornblihtt J. (2023). “Medición de la renta de la tierra minera en Chile y sus cursos de apropiación (1940-2017),” Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, First View, 1-26
Rojas Cifuentes, J., Kornblihtt, J., Rivas Castro, G., and Fuentes, M. (eds) (2023). La cuantificación del desarrollo histórico de la valorización de capital en América del Sur. Santiago de Chile: Universidad de Chile y Ariadna Ediciones.