From the time of the formation of modern capitalist societies, education, knowledge, and progress have been articulated in a variety of ways (Peters, 2010). It is possible to identify an array of modulations in the education, ...

During the twentieth century, the political action of the urban poor in Santiago de Chile and Rio de Janeiro was a focal point of research in the social sciences. A critical reading of the major theories that were proposed ...

This research addresses how the disorganized and excludable Brazilian urbanization process was responsible for urban problems of a social and economic order due to lack or production of unequal urban planning. In Santa ...

In the mid-eighteenth century, following the Bourbon Reforms, the Captaincy General of Chile developed a foundational urban-center policy to organize and concentrate the demographic distribution in their territories. As a ...

In Latin American cities, indigenous peoples' presence is often overlooked: symbols and iconographies either exclude them as a minority or 'memorialise' them as part of a distant past. Through ethnographic observation, ...

La presente investigación pretende ser un aporte a una comprensión más compleja sobre las luchas por la vivienda durante el gobierno de la Unidad Popular, a través del estudio de las ocupaciones ilegales de viviendas. ...