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Administration and Emancipation: Intellectual Ideals and Autonomous Action of Public Professionals of the State

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This chapter illustrates the autonomy and influence of public professionals in the Chilean neoliberal state. The narratives of professionals, both from dominant and subordinated roles of the state, share ideals of public professionalism that are constitutive of expectations of autonomy, oriented towards the subject of state work and that eventually embody the interests of state policy, in post-bureaucratic fashion. In the social/cultural ministries (gender, culture, and indigenous affairs, among others) the autonomous initiatives (excess) of public professionalism might produce effects of production of meaning linked to the representation of subaltern identities and social movements in the state. While technocratic knowledge exerted from the heights of the state is insufficient to respond to the demands of social movements, other hermeneutic and critical uses of knowledge mobilised by the subordinate state professionals have enabled the articulation with social struggles challenging the hierarchies and justifications of the neoliberal framework of the state.

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  1. 1.

    Renamed in 2016 as National Service of Women and Gender Equality (SERNAMEG).

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    Renamed in 2018 as Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Patrimony.

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    All centre-left political parties of the Concertación (1990–2010). The PPD stands for Party for Democracy.

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    From outside the social-cultural function, a lawyer of the competition agency is eloquent in this regard: ‘here theory is really applied and that’s the cool thing that competition law has … when you’re in the agency it’s marvellous and that’s why I think that people enter the agency; the agency is composed of many young guys or people that return from studying abroad … because you’ve got a good chance of influencing real decisions … you really apply what you learned’ (Lawyer, public-elite [state] university 2012).

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    Regarding the critical orientations of policy implementation, I retrieve a recent study by Muñoz and Pantazis (2019) about the resistance of NGOs’ social workers to neoliberal social policy. While this study rightly frames the effect of resistance in the critical knowledge that professionals put in practice in their work, the lack of impact of the professionals’ excess at this level retains the problem of resistance to a matter of the political potential of the professionals’ orientations.

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    Right-wing think tank founded in 1990 by a former minister of the dictatorship.

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    More than £3500 monthly.

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    According to Noordegraaf (2015), the orientations of hybrid professionalism are typically expressed in the form of sound processes that generate articulation of procedures, values, and actors.

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