Disasters as Critical Junctures: State Building and Industrialization in Chile after the Chillán Earthquake of 1939

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dc.catalogadorjca
dc.contributor.authorGil, Magdalena
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-19T15:25:17Z
dc.date.available2024-01-19T15:25:17Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractIn 1939 an earthquake destroyed south-central Chile, especially the city of Chillán. This event was arguably the most catastrophic socio-natural disaster in Chilean history, yet it has been mostly ignored in historical research. This article shows that the earthquake triggered a critical juncture for the Chilean state and was a determining factor in some of the most important institutional developments of the period. Using primary sources, the article describes this juncture, focusing on the destabilizing effect of the earthquake and linking it to the creation of two new state institutions, the Production Development Corporation (CORFO) and the Reconstruction and Assistantship Corporation (CRA), together with other important changes in state capacities. It concludes that the disaster is crucial in understanding the Chilean transition from an exporting economy to an import-substituting one after 1940, and to account for the strength of the Chilean state in the decades to come.
dc.fuente.origenORCID-ene24
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/lar.2022.53
dc.identifier.issn1542-4278
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1017/lar.2022.53
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/80709
dc.information.autorucFacultad de Derecho; Gil Ureta, Magdalena Sofia; 0000-0002-5166-4793; 133817
dc.issue.numero4
dc.language.isoen
dc.nota.accesoContenido completo
dc.pagina.final793
dc.pagina.inicio775
dc.revistaLatin American Research Review
dc.rightsacceso abierto
dc.rights.licenseCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (BY-NC-4.0)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectDisasters
dc.subjectCritical juncture
dc.subjectState capacity
dc.subjectPolitical economy
dc.subjectIndustrial policy
dc.subject.ddc300
dc.subject.deweyCiencias socialeses_ES
dc.titleDisasters as Critical Junctures: State Building and Industrialization in Chile after the Chillán Earthquake of 1939
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen57
sipa.codpersvinculados133817
sipa.trazabilidadORCID;2024-01-08
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