Browsing by Author "Salazar Preece, Gonzalo"

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    Biocultural memory of reciprocity: the Mapuche trafkintu as social‑ecological relationships of care and vindication
    (Springer Nature, 2025) Salazar Preece, Gonzalo; Reyes Ávila, Magdalena Alejandra; Kaulen-Luks, Santiago; Barrera Hernández, María Guadalupe; Burgos, Alison; Ibarra Eliessetch, José Tomás
    Reconsidering the relationship between humans and more-than-human beings amid global crises has brought reciprocity practices between people and biodiversity to the forefront. We examine social-ecological reciprocity practices within Indigenous territories and their direct connection to biocultural memory. Specifically, we explore the Mapuche practice of trafkintu in the Andean zone of Wallmapu, La Araucanía region of southern Chile. Using a mixed-methods framework, from a relational perspective, we integrate spatial analysis of a seed exchange network involving 80 local farmers, with an ethnographic and collaborative phase with 12 Mapuche women—who are part of this network—over three years. We found that social-ecological reciprocity practices—like those in the trafkintu—are constitutive of a biocultural memory. This biocultural memory has been vital for sustaining and transforming social-ecological reciprocity practices amid colonial and neo-colonial pressures. We term this recursion the “memory of reciprocity.” This provides key insights into how reciprocity manifests as a quality of complex social-ecological relationships, marked by mutual care among people, seeds, and other more-than-human beings. It also helps us understand how, amid the colonialism and dispossession endured by Indigenous peoples for centuries, reciprocity has been essential to survival and vindication.
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    Challenging Sustainability: From deconstruction to reconstruction. Cosmos and History
    (2020) Valera, Luca; Salazar Preece, Gonzalo; CEDEUS (Chile)
    In recent decades the concept of sustainability has gained great prominence in the public debate and academic research as well. Today, it is a fundamental concept to address the complex crisis we are facing at planetary scales. However, after several decades, its definition is still associated with vague and ambiguous notions that are ultimately decimating its role as a guiding framework for a more sustainable living. There is still an important gap between its theory and its praxis. The article generates a philosophical deconstruction of the sustainability concept as a necessary action to address this difficulty. This examination allows to philosophically reconstruct fundamental characteristics of its content. The article suggests and argues that a relevant component of sustainability is its regulatory function in the sphere of human relations. It suggests that sustainability is a regulative idea that works as a guide - a working concept - in the case of dilemmas that stem from the problem of maintaining responsibility towards future generations and the environment. From this standpoint, the article explores key aspects of sustainability as an ethically grounded concept and finally reflects about some applicative and educational implications.
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    Ecological design as an ecology of love: Epistemological and ethical implications
    (Springer, 2018) Salazar Preece, Gonzalo; Baxter, Seaton; Vermaas, Pieter E.; Vial, Stéphane
    Based on the argument that the complex environmental crisis is essentially an epistemological and ethical crisis, the intention in this chapter is double: first, to synthesise a new epistemology of design—one that we call an ecology of design by attending to the problem of how are we to understand the systemic relationship between individuals and their environment and comprehend the praxis of design as an integral part of it. And second, to synthesise the essential element for design to become ecological, which it is argued that only occurs when its praxis is mainly commanded by the emotion and ecology of love. Love is described as the biological and ecological foundation of what makes us human beings and therefore as the main human disposition from which a truly ecological ethics and ecological consciousness in design praxis may emerge. First, the chapter examines how design is part of an ecology of living which is epistemologically constructed as a reaction to modern rationale. Then, based on Maturana’s notion of human existence in conversation, the chapter suggests that design is a human form of conversing and synthesises four implications that are constitutive of this condition. After dealing with an epistemological dimension of design as conversation, the chapter synthesises the notion of an ecology of love. Based on the exploration of several philosophical and scientific accounts, the article examines some essential aspects of an ecology of love that informs an ethical and collaborative form of designing
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    ECOLOGICAL DESIGN LOCATION: FROM THE LANDSCAPE TO THE EVERYDAY HOUSEWORK
    (UNIV DIEGO PORTALES, 2013) Salazar Preece, Gonzalo
    This article is on the notions of ecological design. It focuses on the need for starting a location process in the present context of globalization. In order to understand this process from a holistic perspective, this article first questions the modern epistemological bases where the individual and the environment are separated resulting in serious consequences for design. Secondly, it presents the notion of landscape as dynamic, phenomenological and systemic-where the individual and the environment are inseparable-. This article subsequently states that just when a landscape is perceived as own on a local scale, the generation of a more sustainable habitat will be possible. This is referred to as everyday housework. Finally, a generic framework on this process is offered by identifying some elements which could be understood as principles for an ecological design.
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    Hacia una comprensión espacio-temporal de las ciudades intermedias en Chile
    (LOM, 2019) Salazar Preece, Gonzalo; Fonck Larrain, Martin; Irarrazaval Irarrazaval, Felipe; Núñez, Andrés; Aliste, Enrique; Molina, Raúl
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    ¿Indígena campesino o indígena urbano? Aproximaciones desde los procesos de movilidad mapuche en la ciudad intermedia de Temuco (Chile)
    (2020) Salazar Preece, Gonzalo; Riquelme Maulén, Wladimir Esteban; Zúñiga Becerra, Paulina Belén; CEDEUS (Chile)
    Este artículo tiene como objetivo examinar aspectos relevantes del “ser indígena campesino en la ciudad” mediante procesos de movilidad. Específicamente, se ocupa de prácticas y significados de movilidad mapuche, que ponen en conexión a la ciudad de Temuco y sus localidades circundantes Maquehue y Labranza (región de La Araucanía, Chile), ambas con alta presencia de comunidades indígenas. Identificamos que la dicotomía entre ser indígena campesino y ser indígena urbano requiere un descentramiento teórico que contextualice los espacios en que habita y se mueve la población indígena. Investigamos los procesos de movilidad mapuche por medio de la integración entre instrumentos etnográficos -observación etnográfica y entrevistas en profundidad- y métodos móviles. Registramos los flujos de personas en el transporte público del sistema urbano-territorial de Temuco y realizamos la técnica del sombreo con personas mapuche durante su movilidad cotidiana. Esta integración, que definimos como etnografía en movilidad, se sostiene por medio de la articulación interdisciplinar entre antropología y geografía, y nos permite adentrarnos en los procesos de movilidad mapuche campesina en conexión con la ciudad. Como resultado de esto, surgen tres aproximaciones a partir de las cuales sostenemos los resultados: espacialidades, temporalidades e identidades. Concluimos que el análisis de los procesos de movilidad permite comprender el significado de ser indígena campesino en la ciudad, al trascender las dicotomías entre lo rural y lo urbano que han imperado en los estudios indígenas. El artículo profundiza en las dinámicas de lo indígena campesino, desde los procesos de movilidad, e innova metodológicamente al articular datos etnográficos y socioespaciales que hacen posible superar la imperante visión estática y dualista con la que se ha estudiado a las poblaciones indígenas en proceso de urbanización.
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    Non-metropolitan cities in Latin American urban studies: between 'trickle-down urban theory' and 'singularisation theory'
    (Liverpool University Press, 2021) Vergara, Luis; Salazar Preece, Gonzalo; CEDEUS (Chile)
    Non-metropolitan cities are subject to growing attention in Latin American urban studies. However, there is no research that critically analyses the territorial, epistemological and methodological approaches that have been adopted within this line of acad
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    Socioecología basada en la comunidad: Investigación científica escolar y formación ciudadana para la sustentabilidad en Wallmapu
    (Ediciones UC, 2021) Bascopé Julio, Martín; Caviedes, Julián; Becerra, Rukmini; Gálvez Robinson, Nicolás Cristián; Marques, María de la Luz; Salazar Preece, Gonzalo; Barreau, Antonia; Ibarra Eliessetch, José Tomás
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    Sustainability and the Future of the Commons. An Epistemological Examination
    (Springer, 2020) Salazar Preece, Gonzalo; Cerna, Nicolás; Valera, Luca; Castilla, Juan Carlos
    The current ecological crisis and its most obvious planetary expression, climate change, represents true limitations to current ways of life, especially regarding the management of so-called common goods. This implies a critical revision of the philosophical basis that sustains current socio-ecological dynamics. First of all, this article enquires into modern "anti-commons" philosophy: the "possessive individualism" of processes for the cordoning off and privatization of common goods. Secondly, collective sustainability actions are critically reviewed. Such actions are considered to have veered in one way or another from their original intentions, due mainly to paradigmatic limitations stemming from the modern "anti-commons" agenda. Finally, a reflexive analysis is made in order to progress towards a pro-commons sustainability agenda in order to: (1) make effective fulfillment of global sustainability agreements obligatory; and (2) valuate and promote institutions of collective action for government of the commons on a local scale.
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    The space-time compression on indigenous toponymy: the case of mapuche toponymy in Chilean Norpatagonia
    (TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC, 2022) Salazar Preece, Gonzalo; Riquelme Maulén, Wladimir Esteban; CEDEUS (Chile)
    The classic approach to research on toponymy is limited to a linguistic focus. This reductionism has had a negative impact on the study of the toponymy of intercultural and indigenous territories, as in the case of the northern Patagonia. Based on a two-year ethnographic study in northern Patagonia, this article analyzes the socio-spatial dimension of Mapuche toponymy, through a mixed methodology involving both data collection and analysis, and an ethnographic approach. The article analyzes how these toponyms emerge from a variety of socio-spatial practices and meanings that are not only intertwined, but also involve several social, environmental, and political dimensions. We argue that the study of indigenous toponymy as a space-time compression entails an ontological opening of toponymy based on the process of inhabiting place. In this regard, the paper discusses the importance of understanding indigenous toponymy as a historically situated process.
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    Transformaciones urbanas y sentidos de lugar en las ciudades intermedias de la Región de La Araucanía
    (2018) Salazar Preece, Gonzalo; Irarrazaval Irarrazaval, Felipe; Fonck, Martín
    El auge de modelo exportador primario ha tenido serios impactos en los asentamientos urbanos menores en Latinoamérica. Las ciudades intermedias de la Región de La Araucanía son reflejo de ello, en tanto han experimentado significativas evoluciones en su morfología urbana y en la forma en que su población las habita. El presente trabajo aborda las recientes transformaciones urbanas de las ciudades de Angol, Villarrica y Victoria. Específicamente se analiza la relación entre: 1) La expansión urbana y las transformaciones morfológicas al interior de la ciudad; y 2) los discursos y prácticas socio-espaciales de los actores en estas ciudades. Los resultados dan cuenta de cómo las transformaciones urbanas no se han constituido a partir de los sentidos de lugar presentes en las ciudades. Finalmente, se concluye que es fundamental avanzar hacia procesos de planificación urbana que respondan a la experiencia de los habitantes. © 2018, Universidad Austral de Chile