Director of the UC Local Development Centre, located in the Interdisciplinary Complex for Sustainable Development of the Villarrica Campus. He is an associate professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica, specifically at the Villarrica Campus, the Institute for Sustainable Development and the Institute for Urban and Territorial Studies.
He is also a research associate at the Centre for Intercultural and Indigenous Research (CIIR). His research and teaching interests focus on theories and policies of sustainable development; local and community transitions to sustainability; sustainability of intermediary cities in intercultural and indigenous contexts; practices and meanings of mobility; ecological design and education for sustainable development.
He is a designer from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Dundee in Scotland, UK.
RESEARCH AREAS
He specialises in epistemologies of sustainability, planning for sustainable local development, collaborative governance processes, education for sustainability and ecological design theory and praxis.
His research seeks to contribute to and organise around inter- and transdisciplinary approaches and methodologies, in pursuit of collaborative work linked to the territory. In the last 5 years, he has participated as lead researcher, research associate and co-researcher in more than 12 research and R&D projects financed with public funds from Fondecyt, Explora, PAR Explora, COVID-ANID, Public Science, FONDAD, several CORFO instruments, as well as agreements with NGOs, foundations and national and international universities.
He has participated in development and planning projects and consultancies for the sustainability of urban-territorial systems commissioned by regional and local governments in Chile. Since 2019, he is a member of the Geography and Urbanism Evaluation Group of the Fondecyt Programme of the Chilean National Research and Development Agency (ANID).
LAST 10 PUBLICATIONS
Núñez, Amapola; Wladimir Riquelme Maulén, Gonzalo Salazar; Francisco Maturana; Mauricio Morales. (2022). “Dinámicas urbanas en territorio indígena: transformación en las formas de habitar mapuche en el lof Rengalil, Labranza (región de La Araucanía, Chile)”. Revista de Estudios Sociales 80: 75-96. https://doi.org/10.7440/res80.2022.05 (WoS)
Ibarra, José Tomás; Robert Petitpas; Antonia Barreau; Julián Caviedes; Josefina Cortés; Gabriel Orrego; Gonzalo Salazar; Tomás A. Altamirano (2022). “Becoming tree, becoming memory: Social-ecological fabrics in Pewen (Araucaria araucana) landscapes of the southern Andes. En The Cultural Value of Trees: Folk Value and Biocultural Conservation, EDS by Jeffrey Wall. Routledge. https://www.academia.edu/attachments/84730580/download_file?st=MTY2MDc0NzE3OCwxODEuMTYxLjE2LjE4Ng%3D%3D&s=swp-splash-paper-cover
Salazar, G and González, P. (2021) New Mobility Paradigm and Indigenous Construction of Places: Physical and Symbolic Mobility of Aymara Groups in the Urbanization Process, Chile. Sustainability. 2021 13 (4382) https://doi.org/10.3390/ su13084382 (WoS)
Vergara, L y Salazar, G (2021) Non-metropolitan cities in Latin American urban studies: between ‘trickle-down urban theory’ and ‘singularisation theory’. International Development Planning Rreview, 43(3) 321-344 https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2020.18 (WoS)
Salazar, G y Riquelme, W (2020) The space-time compression of indigenous toponymy: The case of Mapuche toponymy in chilean Norpatagonia. Geographical Review, 10.1080/00167428.2020.1839898 (WoS)
Salazar, G; Riquelme, W; Zúñiga, P (2020) ¿Indígena campesino o indígena urbano? Aproximaciones desde los procesos de movilidad mapuche en la ciudad intermedia de Temuco (Chile). Antipoda, 40 53-78 (Scopus)
Valera, L y Salazar, G (2020) Challenging Sustainability: From deconstruction to reconstruction. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, vol. 16 (1) 298-315 (Scopus)
Salazar, G y Cerna, N (2020) Sustainability and the Future of the Commons, in Valera L y Castilla JC (Eds) Global Changes: Ethics, Politics and environment in the Contemporary Technological World, pp111-120 , Springer
Irarrázaval, F; Salazar, G; Fonck, M (2019) Hacia una compresión espacio-temporal de las ciudades intermedias en Chile, in Andrés Núñez, Enrique Aliste & Raúl Molina (Las) otras geografías en Chile, pp153-176, LOM
Salazar, G; Fonck, M; Vergara, L. (2018) Ciudades Intermedias: Dinámicas de intermediación desde su condición de Lugar. El caso de la Región de La Araucanía. Revista de Geografía del Norte Grande, 70: 109-130 (ISI)