Changes in the consciousness and behavior of rural women in Chile: Focusing on structural changes in agriculture and women's social advancement

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K12609
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 80030:Gender studies-related
• Research Institution: Kochi University
• Principal Investigator: Nakanishi Miki 高知大学, 教育研究部人文社会科学系人文社会科学部門, 准教授 (60553146)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: チリ農業 / チリ農村女性 / チリ農業の構造変化

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Based on the analysis of structural changes in Chile's agriculture going back to the 1970s, clarified that the current expansion of agricultural exports, such as fresh fruit and wine, is an extension of this structural changes. While the expansion of agricultural exports has driven Chile's economic growth since the 1990s, at the production site, the "haves/export companies" and the "have-nots/seasonal workers" are positioned at opposite ends, and that the structural problem of the wealth gap that has existed in rural Chile since the colonial era is being reorganized and strengthened. Rural women, who have not been the subject of much analysis in the past, were also included in the analysis and clarified that amid these structural changes, their main employment form is highly unstable, characterized by seasonal work.

Free Research Field

ラテンアメリカ地域研究

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

チリは、グローバリゼーションの到来と手を携えて成長した途上国の輸出農業の成功例と目されている。ただし、その生産現場においては、不安定かつ過酷な状況で働く労働者の存在など、いまだ解決されていない問題が広く残存している。また、そうしたなかでも、女性の置かれている状況は男性以上に劣悪である。途上国農村部の女性たちに焦点が当てられることは少なく、彼女たちの存在は不可視化されがちであるが、男女間の格差問題や社会的公正を考えるうえで避けては通れないテーマである。こうした意味から、本研究は、学術的にも社会的にも意義あるものと思われる。