Ciudad obrera: Persistencias y variaciones en las significaciones del espacio. El caso de la siderûrgica huachipato y su influencia en el desarrollo urbano del gran concepcion

Abstract

This paper discusses the formation of spatial subjectivity associated with a particular way of inhabiting territories, focusing on the way in which these territories are experienced and perceived, both currently and as a projection of the future. This approach is applied to the residential spaces of the housing project developed by the Huachipato Iron and Steel industry in Concepcion, Chile, starting in the 1940's. In this way, the viewpoint adopted is that of the on-going "epistemic transformations" of the social sciences and humanities, known as the "geographic turn". This shift opens an interesting discussion and has generated proposals that are detached from geographic rationalism and positivism, thus allowing for a significant return to issues regarding geographic sensitive experience - an experience closer to the identities that produce, practice, give form and significance to territories, spaces and memories, both socio-culturally and historically.