Rommy Morales-Olivares

Rommy Morales-Olivares

Rommy Morales-Olivares is Assistant Professor (Profesora Lectora) in the Department of Sociology at the University of Barcelona, Faculty of Economics and Business. Her academic trajectory lies at the intersection of social theory and comparative sociology, with particular attention to comparative social structure, change, and conflict in the contemporary Global South.

She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Barcelona (2018, Excellent Cum Laude) and a European PhD in Socioeconomics and Statistical Studies from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the University of Barcelona. Her academic training includes a Master’s Degree in Applied Social Research from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2012), funded by the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (IFP); a Postgraduate Diploma in Democracy and Diversity Studies from The New School for Social Research (2013); and a Master’s Degree in Applied Economics from Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile, in collaboration with Georgetown University (2009). She earned her BA in Sociology from Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile (2006, Magna Cum Laude).

She was a predoctoral researcher in the ERC Advanced Grant project Trajectories of Modernity (TRAMOD), directed by Peter Wagner, within which she developed her doctoral dissertation entitled “Trajectories of Economic Institutionalization in Post-Authoritarian Transitions: A Comparative Interpretation of Chile and South Africa.”

She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa, 2018–2021). Subsequently, she held a postdoctoral position at the University of Barcelona (Margarita Salas contract 2022–2024) and a senior postdoctoral position at the Department of Sociology, University of Lleida (2024–2025) within the project CIVITAS - Citizenship, Values, and Political Attitudes in Transitioning Authoritarian States.

She has been a Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (Cologne, Germany) during two periods: 2021 and 2022–2023. She has also served as Senior Consultant in the Gender Affairs Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and as a researcher at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), participating in projects focused on the design and evaluation of public policies in Chile, South Africa, and Spain.

She currently co-organizes the International Seminar on Social Theory, an initiative of the Department of Sociology at the University of Barcelona and Europa-Universität Flensburg, a monthly forum devoted to debates in social theory: https://www.youtube.com/@SeminarioInternacionalTeoriaSocial

In the field of teaching, she delivers courses in Sociology, Social Theory, Social Structure in Latin America, and Research Methodology in the Social Sciences.

Rommy Morales-Olivares., Pedro Cárcamo Petridis. . Victoria Kent, entre humanismo ilustrado y feminismo moderno.. Estudios Públicos . 181. 107-136.
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Rommy Morales-Olivares. . Olive Schreiner. Más allá del canon. Mujeres en el pensamiento social. Sevilla. Fundación Centro de Estudios Andaluces. 371–380.
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Rommy Morales-Olivares. . Trajectories of Post-Authoritarian Transitions: A Comparative Interpretation of Chile and South Africa, 1990–2010. South African Review of Sociology.
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Rommy Morales-Olivares. . Trajectories of Ruling Ideologies in Post-Authoritarian Chile: The Consolidation of Neoliberalism. Ideology, Post-Ideology and Anti-Ideology in Latin America: Reflections from the Last Decade. London. Bloomsbury Academic. 109–136.
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Rommy Morales-Olivares. Andrea Silva-Tapia., Pedro Cárcamo-Petridis. . The Concept of Dignity. Global Handbook of Inequality. Cham. Springer. 471-499.

This chapter outlines the main debates on the meaning of human dignity from Western humanist thought and perspective. These debates have edges and complexities that, although they began in antiquity, are still ongoing and open. The various tensions that accompany the debate make it impossible to reach a consensus on the character of human dignity. Rather than resolving these tensions in order…

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Rommy Morales-Olivares. Manuel Antonio Garretón. . Del estallido social de octubre de 2019 al cambio constitucional en Chile. Debats. Revista de Cultura, Poder i Societat . 137(2). 27–45.
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Rommy Morales-Olivares. Eduardo Alvarado Espina., Pablo Rivera-Vargas. . Revuelta social en Chile: ¿Una contrahegemonía política que impugna el relato neoliberal?. Debats. Revista de Cultura, Poder i Societat . 137(2). 89–105.
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Rommy Morales-Olivares. Rafael Alvear. . El marxismo latinoamericano frente a la crítica del eurocentrismo: Una introducción. Revista Izquierdas. Santiago de Chile. Instituto de Estudios Avanzados, Universidad de Santiago de Chile. 51. 1–10.
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Rommy Morales-Olivares. Rosa M. Voghon-Hernández. . Racismo y reconocimiento. Discriminación racial desde la mirada latinoamericana. Cuadernos de Teoría Social. 8 (16). 4-13.
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Rommy Morales-Olivares. Carlos Aguirre-Núñez., Lorena Núñez-Carrasco. . Subjective Well-Being and Schools in South Africa: A Post-Covid-19 Analysis. Frontiers in Psychology . 13.
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Rommy Morales-Olivares. . Sociología de la emancipación mental: Emergencia del concepto. Para una sociología de la emancipación mental. Santiago de Chile. Editorial Ariadna.
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Rommy Morales-Olivares. Pablo 13. Rivera-Vargas., Judith Muñoz-Saavedra. . Políticas públicas para la equidad social. Santiago de Chile. Colección Políticas Públicas.
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Rommy Morales-Olivares. Pablo 14. Rivera-Vargas., Judith Muñoz-Saavedra. . Políticas públicas para la equidad social. Santiago de Chile. Colección Políticas Públicas.
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Rommy Morales-Olivares. Pablo 15. Rivera-Vargas. . Conocimiento para la equidad social: Desafíos y propuestas científicas para enfrentar las problemáticas globales en red. Conocimiento para la equidad social: Pensando Chile globalmente. Santiago de Chile. Colección Políticas Públicas.
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Rommy Morales-Olivares. . Inconsistencies Between Social-Democratic Discourses and Neoliberal Institutional Practices in Chile and South Africa. African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity: Past Oppression, Future Justice?. Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Press.
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Rommy Morales-Olivares. David Casassas. . Indignation and Claims for Economic Sovereignty in Europe and the Americas. African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity: Past Oppression, Future Justice?. Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Press.
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Rommy Morales-Olivares. Pedro Güell, Tomás Peters. . Una canasta básica de consumo cultural para América Latina. Santiago de Chile. Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado.
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Rommy Morales-Olivares. Pedro Güell Villanueva, Tomás Peters Núñez. . Tipología de prácticas de consumo cultural en Chile. Universum. Talca. Universidad de Talca. 26(2). 121–141.
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