{"title":"Ciudades intermedias: dinámicas de intermediación desde la noción de lugar. El caso de la región de la Araucanía, Chile","authors":"G. Salazar, M. Fonck, L. Vergara","doi":"10.4067/S0718-34022018000200109","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"espanolResumen: El trabajo es una contribucion al debate de las ciudades intermedias y sus dinamicas de intermediacion. Si bien se reconocen como importantes los aspectos centrales de este debate, se cuestiona su tendencia a homogenizar las ciudades intermedias. Por el contrario, se plantea que es necesario comprender las ciudades intermedias desde las practicas socio-espaciales, en donde la definicion de lugar asoma como elemental para entender las dinamicas de intermediacion y la unicidad de cada una de estas ciudades. El area de estudio es la region de La Araucania de Chile, especificamente las ciudades de Angol, Victoria y Villarrica. A partir de atributos claves de la condicion de lugar propuestos por Massey (2012), se examinan empiricamente practicas y tensiones socio-espaciales constitutivas de las dinamicas de intermediacion. Este acercamiento aporta en una comprension de las ciudades intermedias y sus respectivos procesos de intermediacion de forma mas apropiada y poco desarrollado en la literatura especializada. EnglishAbstract: The following article contributes to the discussion of intermediate cities and their dynamics of intermediation. Although it is recognized the theoretical advancement generated in this field of research in the recent years, the article questions its tendency to homogenize the understanding of these types of cities. The article suggests that it is necessary to comprehend the intermediate cities from their constitutive social practices. From this perspective, the notion of place is introduced as a vital aspect to understand the process of intermediation and the particularity of each urban system. From some key constitutive aspects of the notion of place suggested by Massey (2012) the article empirically examines social practices and tensions that are part of the dynamics of intermediation in three case studies. It is argued that this conceptual approach contributes to the development of a more appropriate and relational understanding of intermediate cities and their respective dynamics of intermediation. The area of study is in the La Araucania Region, specifically in the intermediate and intercultural cities of Villarrica, Angol and Victoria.","PeriodicalId":103273,"journal":{"name":"Revista de geografía Norte Grande","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Revista de geografía Norte Grande","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-34022018000200109","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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espanolResumen: El trabajo es una contribucion al debate de las ciudades intermedias y sus dinamicas de intermediacion. Si bien se reconocen como importantes los aspectos centrales de este debate, se cuestiona su tendencia a homogenizar las ciudades intermedias. Por el contrario, se plantea que es necesario comprender las ciudades intermedias desde las practicas socio-espaciales, en donde la definicion de lugar asoma como elemental para entender las dinamicas de intermediacion y la unicidad de cada una de estas ciudades. El area de estudio es la region de La Araucania de Chile, especificamente las ciudades de Angol, Victoria y Villarrica. A partir de atributos claves de la condicion de lugar propuestos por Massey (2012), se examinan empiricamente practicas y tensiones socio-espaciales constitutivas de las dinamicas de intermediacion. Este acercamiento aporta en una comprension de las ciudades intermedias y sus respectivos procesos de intermediacion de forma mas apropiada y poco desarrollado en la literatura especializada. EnglishAbstract: The following article contributes to the discussion of intermediate cities and their dynamics of intermediation. Although it is recognized the theoretical advancement generated in this field of research in the recent years, the article questions its tendency to homogenize the understanding of these types of cities. The article suggests that it is necessary to comprehend the intermediate cities from their constitutive social practices. From this perspective, the notion of place is introduced as a vital aspect to understand the process of intermediation and the particularity of each urban system. From some key constitutive aspects of the notion of place suggested by Massey (2012) the article empirically examines social practices and tensions that are part of the dynamics of intermediation in three case studies. It is argued that this conceptual approach contributes to the development of a more appropriate and relational understanding of intermediate cities and their respective dynamics of intermediation. The area of study is in the La Araucania Region, specifically in the intermediate and intercultural cities of Villarrica, Angol and Victoria.