On Thursday, October 23, Natalia Miranda and Diego Palacios presented the paper “How Do Organizations Converge Around Pension Reform? A Bipartite Map of Chilean Protest Networks,” developed in collaboration with Mahima Agrawal (intern from Columbia University), in the panel “Institutional Trajectories, Citizen Responses, and the Role of Expert Actors.”

This ongoing research seeks to understand how organizations involved in pension-related protests in Chile articulate and co-participate, analyzing the dynamics between diverse social actors during the 2008–2020 period.

Using a COES database, the study applies bipartite network analysis to map the relationships between protest events and participating organizations, identifying territorial patterns and varying degrees of centrality in social mobilization. Preliminary findings highlight:

• A higher concentration of protests in the Metropolitan Region.

• Greater protest activity per capita in the country’s central-southern areas.

• 2016 as the year with the highest number of pension-related protests.

• The presence of organizations with greater centrality within protest networks.

• The importance of understanding social movements as relational fields of encounter and recognition among diverse actors, rather than isolated expressions of demand.

The study proposes to reinterpret social movements through a structural and network-based perspective, integrating the dimensions of scale, co-participation, and organizational centrality to contribute to a deeper understanding of persistent social demands in contemporary Chile.