Biodata- 1. Academic Biography

Valentina Herrera Quijanes is a Social Anthropology graduate by Universidad de Chile in the year 2021. Her principal studies are about the territorial problems where the social conflicts were between the local residents, principally in rural zone, and state industry or private industry. Inclusive, her dissertation was about this topic, making a connection with social problems respect to the ages and old age, specifically the event in sacrifice zones in their country. Her studies contributed in the progressive extraction of the industry in the zones, issue that improves the situation like improve the health levels and the most important the territorial recovery. This is her most important achievement.

Her interest of studies was always of a character more pragmatic, working actively with communitys that in general see their reality confront with the effects of the neoliberalism. For this motive she left the academy, and they aren’t her principal area of interest. But she has was a lot publications when talk with a light and simple language respect to diverse current topics.

Her propose like anthropology is know the social reality and make of her knowledge information of social repots about of the inequality inter humans and not humans. For this the extractivism is her principal element to reveal.

Other of her interesting or work topics is the collective learning with child, where she’ll load since the child increase the local knowledge, the local language in kids that reside in territories with a own language. In this case we stand out her book about a detailed geographic and cultural territorial re-construction made in collaboration of kids in the region of Tarapacá and region of Valparaíso. Tell that how the child understand their own territory.