Dr. Jorge Saavedra Utman is an Affiliated Lecturer in Media, Culture and Society at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge. Originally from Chile, Jorge completed a BA in Social Communication (2005), and a MA in Political Communication (2010).
After working in local and national media, in the cultural sector, being involved in grassroots activism and academic research, Jorge moved to London in 2012 to undertake a PhD in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London.
His doctotal thesis, entitled ‘Media and Communicative Practices in the Quest for the Commons: Chile’s 2011 Student Movement’, explored the ways in which media and communicative practices contributed to render voice as a commons, thus opening up the political in the context of a democracy running under neoliberal guidelines
He is the author of the book The Media Commons and Social Movements: Grassroots Mediations Against Neoliberal Politics (Routledge, 2018) among other publications.
