153 Chapter 8 Geographies of Resistance in the Chilean Education System in the Post-dictatorship Age (1990–2019): A Protest Event Analysis Cristóbal Villalobos and Lluís Parcerisa Abstract From a comparative perspective, the Chilean school system can be con- sidered a paradigmatic case that combines structural privatization processes, sophis- ticated accountability systems and high levels of school segregation. This chapter aims to analyze the role of the spatial dimension in the trajectory of protests in the education sector during the Chilean post-dictatorship (1990–2019). Methodologically, the research carries out a Protest Event Analysis (PEA) of a novel database of more than 1.700 protests. The findings show that the spatial dimension (e.g., regional distribution, degree of rurality, types of places of protest, etc.) mediates not only the characteristics and the nature of actors who participate in protest events but also the strategies and repertoires of collective action deployed by social movements. Keywords Critical geography · Education policy · Protests · Neoliberalism · Chile This work is part of the Fondecyt Project N° 11190198: “Estudiando el funcionamiento, orga- nización y dinámicas del campo educativo. Un análisis de la trayectoria, características, relacio- nes e influencias en el Chile post-dictadura (1990–2020)”. C. Villalobos (*) Centro de Estudios de Políticas y Prácticas en Educación (CEPPE UC), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile e-mail: clvilla@uc.cl L. Parcerisa ESBRINA, Departament de Didàctica i Organització Educativa, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain e-mail: lluisparcerisa@ub.edu © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023 K. Mary et al. (eds.), Geographies of Globalized Education Privatization, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37853-9_8