![]() As this thesis shows, collective autonomy introduces previously ignored concerns and changes the actors, scales and aims at stake in the governance of data. ![]() Finally, I connect the expansion of data infrastructure in Chile with the long-standing threat to Indigenous worlds cultivating balanced modes of existence in the territory. After that, I turn to the economy and trace emerging meanings of development, extractivism and the state as actors make sense of what is going on with astronomy data. First, I look at the implementation of dataintensive research and examine how the articulation of a new positionality by local actors favours an obedient stance in knowledge generation. The empirical chapters explore three different spheres. In analytical terms, I approach interviews, field notes and policy documents from a discursive-material perspective sensitive to the role of both meaning and matter. ![]() Collective autonomy also draws on post-Marxism, foregrounding dissenting voices and examining the changing positionalities of the parties involved. This framework builds upon decolonial thinking and mobilised groups in the region, situating the analysis in the context of a capitalist modern/colonial world system. Unlike the paradigms of openness and sovereignty, collective autonomy speaks to long-standing concerns related to social justice in Latin America that took shape in parallel with European colonialism. In this thesis I examine the governance of this data by developing a framework based on collective autonomy. Research, policy and corporate initiatives have been put into place to leverage this situation. In recent years, different actors in Chile have portrayed the vast volumes of astronomy data produced by international observatories in the Atacama Desert as a unique opportunity for scientific and economic development. Overall, this work provides an empirical contribution to a little-studied area of inquiry within the psy disciplines, one that focuses on diversity’s conflictual nature and its multiple lives, suggesting an original research path into the recent history of Chile and its haunting presence in the present. Lastly, the analysis delves into the interviewees’ ambivalent attachments to diversity and critically addresses their references to ‘sexual dissidence’ as a means for troubling diversity’s comforting politics and domesticated aesthetics. It discusses the work that sensitivity does in shaping a particular way of knowing the diverse other that reproduces medical gatekeeping practices and forms of gender panic. Secondly, this study examines the different ways in which ‘gender diversity’ is produced as a sensitive issue in clinical practice and diversity training courses. To that end, it firstly explores the affective labour involved in producing the notion of the ‘field of sexual and gender diversity’, and critically attends to diversity’s temporal politics and its investments in progress. In doing so, this thesis explores how sexual and gender diversity has been taken up by psy professionals working with LGBTI people in three different cities in Chile, and the work that is done by those uses in the spaces of the clinic, activism and social research, asking in what ways these uses are also expressive of broader psychosocial processes. Through semi-structured interviews and participant observation, this project analyses the psychic life of diversity in Chile and examines psychology’s political place in the production of diversity as a means for regulating sexuality and gender. This thesis constitutes a novel interrogation into the ‘turn to diversity’ that critically explores the articulation of a growing field of expertise on sexual and gender diversity within the psy disciplines, bringing feminist, queer and sexual-dissident theories of diversity together with psychosocial studies.
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