Browsing by Author "Angelcos, Nicolás"

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    Accusations of academic extractivism in Chile's historical poor neighborhoods: root causes and alternative practices
    (2025) Ruiz-tagle Venero, Javier Ignacio; Moraga Núñez, Francisca Valentina; Mujica, Trinidad; Toro Salinas, Amanda Beatriz; Orlando Romero, Laura Vivian; Luneke, Alejandra; Zenteno, Elizabeth; Pérez, Miguel; Angelcos, Nicolás; Cortés, Alexis
    Chile's historic poor neighborhoods are attracting increasing academic interest, while residents voice concerns about ‘academic extractivism.’ This criticism highlights researchers’ concentration on these well-studied areas without meaningful engagement with locals. Our paper examines this issue from three perspectives: residents’ experiences with institutions and researchers, and their aspirations for self-representation; pressures of ‘fast science’ that disrupt the relationships between scholars and lower-class communities; and the challenges faced by our research team when implementing a conventional research design in these territories. We conclude emphasizing the need for alternative urban research practices that prioritize collaboration, reciprocity, and the redistribution of power dynamics.
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    Narrating the Chilean Social Revolt through and against Stigma: The Case of Two Older Women from a Stigmatized Neighborhood
    (2023) Álvarez López, Valentina; Méndez, María Luisa; Angelcos, Nicolás; Rasse, Alejandra
    This article explores the workings of social and territorial stigma among residents of an stigmatized neighborhood in Santiago de Chile in the context of nationwide conflict. By attending to the narratives of social organizers, it shows how stigma framed the narratives of the Chilean revolt of October 2019 produced by two female organizers older than fifty years without tertiary education. It argues that, for those with less educational and political resources, stigma can help think through a social conflict by translating broader political issues into everyday life experiences and can both constrain and enable different forms of engagement in the revolt. The narratives were obtained by ethnographic interviews carried out in a broader project of the unfolding of the unrest in Santiago’s peripheries between November 2019 and July 2020.
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    Struggles against Territorial Disqualification. Mobilization for Dignified Housing and Defense of Heritage in Santiago
    (2017) Angelcos, Nicolás; Méndez Layera, María Luisa
    A critical analysis of two conflicts associated with the displacement resulting from gentrification in Santiago, Chile, reveals that this displacement affects both the urban poor and the middle classes and that the common adversary is the real estate sector. The subjective experience of the groups involved can be understood in terms of the concept of territorial disqualification, a threat both to their positions in the social structure and to the recognition of the identities, personal and collective, that have been constructed about particular neighborhoods. The subject defended in struggles against territorial disqualification is the community. While class positions, specific demands, and territorial claims differ significantly, the structural framework in which neoliberal urbanism develops makes possible a confluence of class organizations that are susceptible to generating interclass strategies of opposition.