Gabriel Salazar

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Gabriel Salazar
PhD in Economic history, 1984)
AwardsSantiago Municipal Literature Award (2000)
Chilean National History Award (2006)
Santiago Municipal Literature Award (2016)
Scientific career
FieldsHistory of Chile, social history

Gabriel Salazar Vergara (born 31 January 1936) is a

2011–12
.

Salazar was born into a

Universidad de Chile, and for time he was assistant of historian Mario Góngora and classical historian Héctor Herrera Cajas.[1] Salazar used to be a member of the Revolutionary Left Movement until 1973.[2] In that year he was tortured in Villa Grimaldi by the military.[2] Having been released from a military prison camp in 1976 he went into exile in the United Kingdom. There he obtained a scholarship for continued studies in University of Hull
. He obtained a PhD in Economic and Social History from that university in 1984. Next year he returned to Chile. Relatively unknown Salazar's breakthrough came in 1985.

His subject of study has included

Marxist".[1]

Biography

Salazar was born into a lower class religious Catholic family. His family lived in the Santiago shanty-town (población) Manuel Montt.[1]

From 1964 to 1968, he worked at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso History Institute alongside Héctor Herrera Cajas. There, he taught the signature theory of history.

Particular views

Salazar describes the

plebiscite on the demands behind the 2011-2012 Chilean student protests.[4]

Salazar has been critical of various historical figures like José Miguel Carrera[5] and Diego Portales.[B] In addition Salazar has sparkled controversy by his criticism of contemporary student leader Camila Vallejo.[C]

Bibliography

  • Labradores, Peones y Proletarios (1985)
  • Violencia Política Popular en las Grandes Alamedas (1990)
  • Los Intelectuales, los Pobres y el Poder (1995)
  • Autonomía, Espacio y Gestión (1998)
  • Manifiesto de Historiadores (compilador) (1999)
  • Historia Contemporánea de Chile (Junto con Julio Pinto – five volumes) (1999–2002)
  • Ferias libres: espacio residual de soberanía popular (2002)
  • Historia de la acumulación capitalista en Chile (2003)
  • La Construcción del Estado en Chile (1800–1830) (2006)
  • Ser niño "huacho" en la historia de Chile (2007)
  • Mercaderes, empresarios y capitalistas[9] (2009)
  • Conversaciones con Carlos Altamirano (2010)
  • En el nombre del poder popular constituyente (Chile siglo XXI) (2011)
  • La enervante levedad histórica de la clase política civil (Chile, 1900–1973) (2015)
  • La historia desde abajo y desde adentro[10] (2017)
  • El ejército de Chile y la soberanía popular[11] (2019)

Notes

  1. ^ In Chilean Spanish a "huacho" is person who is raised without one of the parents, usually without the a father.
  2. ^ Salazar is one of various historians with a negative assessment of Portales including Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna and Sergio Villalobos.[6]
  3. ^ In June 2012 Salazar stated that student leader Camila Vallejo should quit the Communist Party of Chile "if she was intelligent enough".[7][8]

References

  1. ^
    Biblioteca Nacional de Chile
    . Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Gabriel Salazar, Premio Nacional de Historia: "Si Camila Vallejo es inteligente debe abandonar el PC"". El Mercurio de Calama (in Spanish). 17 June 2012. p. 46. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
  3. ^ Salazar, Gabriel (6 August 2011). "Perspectivas históricas del movimiento social-ciudadano". The Clinic (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  4. Radio Biobío (in Spanish). 7 October 2011. Archived from the original
    on 9 October 2011. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
  5. ^ Marín, Pablo (15 October 2015). "José Miguel Carrera, el prócer en el siglo XXI". La Tercera (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  6. ^ Prieto Larraín, María Cristina (2011). "Chapter 2: Shaping Chile's Traditional Self-Image of Exceptionality" (PDF). Branding the Chilean Nation: Socio-Cultural Change, National Identity and International Image (Thesis).
  7. ^ "Salazar aclara: "Camila Vallejo no es una gran líder política, pero lo puede ser"". Emol (in Spanish). 18 June 2012.
  8. ^ "Gabriel Salazar precisa dichos sobre Vallejo: "no es una líder política y lo puede ser"". La Tercera (in Spanish). 18 June 2012. Archived from the original on 24 February 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2016..
  9. ^ "Mercaderes, empresarios y capitalistas (Relanzamiento 2018)".
  10. ^ "La historia desde abajo y desde adentro".
  11. ^ "El ejército de Chile y la soberanía popular".

External links

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