Artículo de revista
Idéologies du développement, enjeux socio-environnementaux et construction de l’aire métropolitaine de Concepción (Chili)
Fecha
2013Registro en:
Annales de Géographie, No. 694 - 2013 - pages 662-688
Autor
Aliste Almuna, Enrique
Di Méo, Guy
Guerrero, Raùl
Institución
Resumen
In two and a half centuries Concepción went from colonial city to metropolization.
Though this metropolization remains quite limited, since the urban area does not
exceed 700-800 000 inhabitants, it nevertheless links the contemporary Grand
Concepción to the market in a world that is now globalized. Four cultural and
ideological forms of development representations have followed one another in
this southern part of central Chile since the middle of the 18th Century : the
colonial and postcolonial Frontier ; the industrial city of the strategic development
area (aimed at replacing imports by national productions) ; the region fitting into
a neoliberal economy imposed and controlled by the military dictatorship ; the
mobile metropolis, partly converted to the service sector and to consumerism, but drowned under the mystifying discourse of sustainable development that the
prevailing seismic risk tends to make into a mythologize. Using the method of
socio-spatial formations and through the lens of successive representations of
development, this research tries to throw light on the varied reasoning that led to
the territorial construction of a network-linked metropolitan area, globalized but
doing little to give its region direction.