Gabriel Salazar Vergara(born 31 January 1936) is aChileanhistorian.He is known in his country for his study ofsocial historyand interpretations ofsocial movements,particularly the recent student protests of2006and2011–12.
Gabriel Salazar | |
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 Salazar in 2015 | |
| Born | 31 January 1936 Santiago,Chile |
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| Awards | Santiago Municipal Literature Award(2000) Chilean National History Award(2006) Santiago Municipal Literature Award (2016) |
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| Fields | History of Chile,social history |
Salazar was born into alower classfamily, he studied history, sociology and philosophy atUniversidad de Chile,and for time he was assistant of historianMario Góngoraand classical historianHéctor Herrera Cajas.[1]Salazar used to be a member of theRevolutionary Left Movementuntil 1973.[2]In that year he was tortured inVilla Grimaldiby the military.[2]Having been released from a military prison camp in 1976 he went into exile in theUnited Kingdom.There he obtained a scholarship for continued studies inUniversity 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 includedpeons,labourers,proletarians,child huachos[A]and women.[1]Salazar is one of the founders of thehistoriographic currentknown asNueva Historia Social.Salazar considers history as a useful tool forsocial action.In interview he has declared himself a "leftist, critical social historian" and rejected the label "Marxist".[1]
Biography
editSalazar was born into alower classreligious Catholic family. His family lived in the Santiago shanty-town (población) Manuel Montt.[1]
From 1964 to 1968, he worked at thePontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso History InstitutealongsideHéctor Herrera Cajas.There, he taught the signaturetheory of history.
Particular views
editSalazar describes the2011-2012 Chilean student conflictas being the continuation of a long strife between popular citizen movements and civic andmilitary dictatorships.[3]In October 2011, Salazar led a campaign aiming to hold a citizen'splebisciteon the demands behind the 2011-2012 Chilean student protests.[4]
Salazar has been critical of various historical figures likeJosé Miguel Carrera[5]andDiego Portales.[B]In addition Salazar has sparkled controversy by his criticism of contemporary student leaderCamila Vallejo.[C]
Bibliography
edit- 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
edit- ^InChilean Spanisha "huacho" is person who is raised without one of the parents, usually without the a father.
- ^Salazar is one of various historians with a negative assessment of Portales includingBenjamín Vicuña MackennaandSergio Villalobos.[6]
- ^In June 2012 Salazar stated that student leaderCamila Vallejoshould quit theCommunist Party of Chile"if she was intelligent enough".[7][8]
References
edit- ^abcd"Gabriel Salazar Vergara (1936 - )".Memoria Chilena(in Spanish).Biblioteca Nacional de Chile.Retrieved29 January2016.
- ^ab"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.Retrieved18 June2012.
- ^Salazar, Gabriel (6 August 2011)."Perspectivas históricas del movimiento social-ciudadano".The Clinic(in Spanish).Retrieved23 January2016.
- ^"Premio Nacional de Historia y actores encabezan campaña de apoyo a plebiscito por la Educación".Radio Biobío(in Spanish). 7 October 2011. Archived fromthe originalon 9 October 2011.Retrieved8 October2011.
- ^Marín, Pablo (15 October 2015)."José Miguel Carrera, el prócer en el siglo XXI".La Tercera(in Spanish).Retrieved17 January2016.
- ^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).
- ^"Salazar aclara:" Camila Vallejo no es una gran líder política, pero lo puede ser "".Emol(in Spanish). 18 June 2012.
- ^"Gabriel Salazar precisa dichos sobre Vallejo:" no es una líder política y lo puede ser "".La Tercera(in Spanish). 18 June 2012. Archived fromthe originalon 24 February 2016.Retrieved16 January2016..
- ^"Mercaderes, empresarios y capitalistas (Relanzamiento 2018)".
- ^"La historia desde abajo y desde adentro".
- ^"El ejército de Chile y la soberanía popular".
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