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Patricia Richards

plr333@uga.edu

 

Patricia Richards is Assistant Professor of Sociology.  Her book, Pobladoras, Indígenas and the State: Conflicts over Women’s Rights in Chile, was recently published by Rutgers University Press.  In the book, she examines how state policy shapes the promotion of women’s interests but at the same time contributes to the marginalization of particular classes and racial-ethnic groups (specifically poor urban women and Mapuche indigenous women). The book adds to understandings of how actors who differ by gender, class, and race/ethnicity are articulated into the nation under reestablished democracies.  

In her current research, Dr. Richards continues to focus on the gendered and ethnically structured aspects of national identity.  She is conducting an ethnographic study of racial-ethnic relations in two Chilean localities in the context of the struggle for indigenous rights.  She is interested in documenting the ways that national identity and development ideologies are reproduced and reinterpreted at the local level, and how race/ethnicity, class, and gender hierarchies are articulated in the process. 

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