Este artículo analiza la relación entre la mortalidad en la infancia y el consumo de leche en la Provincia de Santiago durante 1930-1962. El proceso estudiado comienza con la Ley de Pasteurización que al higienizar la leche redujo las cifras de niños con enfermedades gastrointestinales y en efecto la mortalidad, y finaliza con la inauguración de lo...
Alors que le Pérou et le Chili sont traditionnellement considérés comme des puissances rivales, ils ont partagé un élan commun sous les gouvernements socialistes de Juan Velasco Alvarado (1968-1975) et de Salvador Allende (1970-1973). Au détour de cette parenthèse, cet article se propose de replacer les deux pays dans une perspective croisée en sou...
At the end of the 19th century, there was a profoundconcern among doctors, architects and intellectuals about the situation of the city in terms of its material conditions and their effects on public health. In a broad sense, their impressions were inspired by a hygienist matrix that guided their decisions and proposals, beyond the replacement of t...
This research analyzes the relationship between the city of Santiago de Chile and the Mapocho River as a space for risks and threat during the 18th century. In order to do this, we observed the responses of the population and the civil and ecclesiastical authorities against the dangers of the river when the city was the scene of several threats suc...
The postmodern panorama, with the emergence of a more complex, diverse, and multicultural global world, has imposed the revision of all our social and cultural categories, which has meant the appearance of new cartographies that must adapt to the fluidity and dynamics of communities. emerging. Among them, the queer world, which has begun a few deca...
Abstract: Inhabiting the territory in a sustainable way is a great challenge nowadays by considering the relationship between the built environment and the natural environment and, even more, if they are affected by some type of natural risk. Santiago de Chile has showed an accelerated urbanization in its Andean foothills in recent decades, identif...
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This essay explores sensory stimuli in La aritmética en el amor [Arithmetic in Love/Economics of Love] (1860) as they relate to the consumer preferences (for clothing, furniture, jewellery) and purchasing practices of nineteenth-century Santiago, Chile. The novel presents detailed descriptions, for example, of fine fabrics, emphasising the sounds t...
Protest has become a ubiquitous part of urban life as a result of the conditions that command processes of urbanisation. This project concerns itself with the advocation for spatial agency in cities by understanding how public space can contribute a form of cultural resistance within turbulent political and social contexts. The thesis aims to be un...
Connections between the urbanization process and infant mortality in Santiago de Chile between 1930-1970 are analyzed in this paper. The influence of housing on children’s health, the appearance of callampas populations, and the expansion of pipeline networks are considered, as they are explanatory aspects of high infant mortality. It is concluded ...
In La oscura memoria de las armas (2008) Ramón Díaz Eterovic explores the topics of memory, Chile’s dictatorship, transition, violence and truth from the perspective of Detective Heredia, who goes through the streets of Santiago elucidating a murder that, based on rumours and on a conscious of effort of not forgetting history, it deals with relevan...
