Igor Alexis Goicovic Donoso (born 5 November 1960) is a Chilean historian and scholar dedicated to the

social history Social history, often called the new social history, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. In its "golden age" it was a major growth field in the 1960s and 1970s among scholars, and still is well represented in his ...

, field which he has territorially deploy in

Viña del Mar Viña del Mar (; meaning "Vineyard of the Sea") is a city and commune on central Chile's Pacific coast. Often referred to as ("The Garden City"), Viña del Mar is located within the Valparaíso Region, and it is Chile's fourth largest city w ...

. He has taught lessons at the University of Chile or the

University of Playa Ancha Playa Ancha University of Educational Sciences ( es, Universidad de Playa Ancha de Ciencias de la Educación), mostly known as Playa Ancha University or UPLA, is a public university in Valparaíso, Chile. It is part of the Chilean Traditional Univ ...

Biography

Goicovic was born in the town of

Illapel Illapel () is a Chilean city, which is the capital of the Choapa Province, Coquimbo Region. It lies along the Illapel River and marks the country's narrowest point along a parallel (94 km). It is located to the east of Los Vilos. Administrat ...

at the

Coquimbo Region The Coquimbo Region ( es, Región de Coquimbo, ) is one of Chile's 16 regions (first order administrative divisions). It is bordered by Atacama to the north, Valparaíso to the south, Argentina to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. ...

. Then he completed his High School at the C-17 Lyceum of

Los Vilos Los Vilos (From mapuche: ''Filu'', ‘snake’) ? is both a Chilean coastal commune and a coastal city with over 9,000 inhabitants (18,275 in comuna), located in the Province of Choapa, part of the IV Region of Coquimbo. The city has a harbour c ...

, near to La Serena. In 1980, he joined the History Institute of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso where he graduated in 1989 as Professor of History and Geography. While studying, he was a tough activist against Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. First, as a member of the Socialist Party Youth (JS) and then in the ranks of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), Marxist-leninist organisation. As a consequence of his role of activist, Goicovic was arrested on two occasions: first, in 1982, when he was accused of violating Decree Law No. 77, which outlawed leftist political organizations, so he was jailed for three months in the La Serena Public Jail; the second time, in 1984, he was accused of violating the Law on Arms and Explosives Control of October 21, 1972, being this time jailed for two years in the Valparaíso Public Prison. When the dictatorship had ended, in 1990, he joined the Vina del Mar Municipal Corporation for Social Development as teacher of History and Geography. There, he worked until 2002 as classroom teacher at the Los Castaños Adult Education Center (the current «Los Castaños Education, Training and Improvement Center»).

External links

Profile at USACH

References

1960 births Living people 20th-century Chilean historians 20th-century Chilean male writers 21st-century Chilean historians 21st-century Chilean male writers Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso alumni University of Santiago, Chile alumni University of Murcia alumni Chilean essayists Chilean historians Chilean Marxists Socialist Party of Chile politicians Revolutionary Left Movement (Chile) politicians {{Chile-historian-stub