Gonzalo Salazar

Associate Researcher
JUST CITIES

 

gonzalosalazar@uc.cl

Director of the UC Center for Local Development located in the Interdisciplinary Complex for Sustainable Development, Villarrica Campus. He is an Associate Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, specifically at the Villarrica Campus, the Institute for Sustainable Development, and the Institute of Urban and Territorial Studies. He is an Associate Researcher at the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Studies (CIIR). Since 2019, he has been a member of the Geography and Urbanism Evaluation Group for the Fondecyt Program at the National Agency for Research and Development of Chile.

 

He is a designer from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Dundee.

 

RESEARCH AREAS

 

He specializes in epistemologies of sustainability, planning for sustainable local development, collaborative governance processes, education for sustainability, and the theory and praxis of ecological design.

 

His research and teaching interests focus on theories and policies of sustainable development, local and community transitions for sustainability, sustainability of intermediate cities in intercultural and indigenous contexts, mobility practices and meanings, ecological design, and education for sustainable development.

 

His research aims to contribute to and organize around inter- and transdisciplinary approaches and methodologies, fostering collaborative work linked to the territory. In the last five years, he has participated as the principal investigator, associate, or co-investigator in more than 12 research and R&D projects funded by public funds from Fondecyt, Explora, PAR Explora, COVID-ANID, Ciencia Pública, various CORFO instruments, as well as agreements with NGOs, foundations, and national and international universities.

 

He has been involved in projects and consultancy for the sustainable development and planning of urban-territorial systems commissioned by regional and local governments in Chile.

 

LATEST 10 PUBLICATIONS

 

Ibarra, J. T., Riquelme-Maulén, W., Bañales-Seguel, C., Orrego, G., & Salazar, G. (2024). While clearing the forests: The social–ecological memory of trees in the Anthropocene. Ambio, 53(12), 1783–1796. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-02008-5

 

Salazar, G., Acuña, V. R., & Valera, L. (2023). From the Utopia of Sustainable Development to Sustainable Topoi. Environmental Ethics, 45(1), 49-70. https://doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics202333051

 

Bergamini, K., Ojeda, C. G., Gutiérrez, P., Salazar, G., & Curillán, C. (2023). Chilean institutional policies and multi-level agents: Challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic and carbon footprint. Frontiers In Communication, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1059053

 

Núñez, A., Maulén, W. R., Salazar, G., Maturana, F., & Morales, M. (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

 

Ibarra, J., Petitpas, R., Barreau, A., Caviedes, J., Cortés, J., Orrego, G., Salazar, G. & Altamirano, T. (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., & González, P. (2021). New Mobility Paradigm and Indigenous Construction of Places: Physical and Symbolic Mobility of Aymara Groups in the Urbanization Process, Chile. Sustainability, 13(8), 4382. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084382

 

Vergara, L., & Salazar, G. (2021). Non-metropolitan cities in Latin American urban studies: between ‘trickle-down urban theory’ and ‘singularisation theory’. IDPR. International Development Planning Review/International Development Planning Review, 43(3), 321-344. https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2020.18

 

Salazar, G. & Riquelme, W. (2020) THE SPACE-TIME COMPRESSION OF INDIGENOUS TOPONYMY: THE CASE OF MAPUCHE TOPONYMY IN CHILEAN NORPATAGONIA. Geographical Review, 112(5), 641-666. https://doi.org/10.1080/00167428.2020.1839898

 

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. & 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)