Ángela Vergara
Biographic Data
| ID | 3649490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ángela Vergara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ángela |
| FAMILY NAME | Vergara |
| SIGNATURE | VERGARA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6871-4486 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
To See or Not to See
More than two-thirds of Latinx undergraduate students in the U.S. obtain their college degrees from Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI), a designation based on the proportion of students who are of Latinx descent and low-income, instead of any federal guidelines for serving Latinx students. Existing literature identifies factors that aid students’ success at HSIs, but there is little knowledge about how Latinx students experience newly designated…
Los pirquineros de la Gran Minería
Objective/context: Between the late 1950s and 1978, around 400 artisanal miners (pirquineros) occupied and worked the abandoned Potrerillos mine, known as Mina Vieja (Old Mine). Located on the margins of the territory of a large mining company—first Andes Copper (a subsidiary of Anaconda) and then Cobresal (part of the state-owned company Codelco)—these miners attempted to build an autonomous community by recovering an abandoned and degraded site…
Diplomacy from the Bottom Up
The history of U.S.-Latin American relations during the long 1960s has long attracted diplomatic scholars. The aftermath of the Cuban Revolution (1959), U.S. President John F. Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress, and the U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic (1965) are pivotal chapters in the history of the global Cold War. In The Gathering Storm, Sebastián Hurtado-Torres contributes to this growing literature by focusing on U.S.-Chilean foreign re…
Fighting for the Right to Decent Work
Latin American Extractivism
Latin Americanists have long debated the possibilities, limits, and contradictions of economies dependent on the extraction and export of natural resources. During the Cold War era, revolutionary leaders, such as Salvador Allende in Chile, nationalized foreign-owned companies but did not question their countries' dependency on commodities. Indeed, they envisioned the new nationalized mining and energy companies as the engine of economic and socia…
‘To work more, produce more and defend the revolution’
On 11 July 1971, Chile’s National Congress, in a historic vote, unanimously approved reforming the constitution, which opened the door to nationalise the large-scale copper industry. Traditional historical accounts of the nationalisation of copper had emphasised a history of negotiations between foreign capital and the Chilean government, documenting how economists and political leaders experimented with different approaches to obtain a share of …
Amamantar
Historia política de Chile, 1810–2010 . Vol. 3, Problemas económicos
In Latin America, the bicentennial of independence and the influence of the new political history have sparked interest in the process of state formation, political communities, ideas, and the role of the state in society and the economy. In light of this historiographical turn, Historia política de Chile, 1810–2010, a four-volume series coordinated by Iván Jaksić, examines the history of the country through the lens of the state and political pr…
Fernando Purcell, ¡Muchos extranjeros para mi gusto! Mexicanos, chilenos e irlandeses en la construcción de California, 1848–1880 (Mexico City and Santiago
Fernando Purcell, ¡Muchos extranjeros para mi gusto! Mexicanos, chilenos e irlandeses en la construcción de California, 1848–1880 (Mexico City and Santiago: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2016), pp. 251, pb. - Volume 50 Issue 2
La Unidad Popular y los trabajadores
CURY, Márcia. O protagonismo popular. Experiências de classe e movimentossociais na construção do socialismo chileno (1964-1973). Campinas: UNICAMP,2017. (Traducción al español: El protagonismo popular chileno. Experiencias de clasey movimientos sociales en la construcción del socialismo (1964-1973). Santiago:LOM y Editora UNICAMP, 2018)
Revisiting Pampa Irigoin
This essay examines urban social movements and state repression in 1960s Chile. Housing became a central political and social demand in Cold War Chile, and poor urban dwellers organized and challenged state authorities and traditional property laws. Through the history of Pampa Irigoin (Puerto Montt, 1969), a land occupation and brutal police repression in the south of the country, this essay demonstrates the growing tensions in Chilean cities an…
For a Proper Home
Edward Murphy provides an engaging, well-researched, and bottom-up historical account of low-income residents in Santiago, Chile, from the 1960s to 2010. Looking at a time of rapid urban growth and dramatic political and economic transformations, the author analyzes the struggles of Santiago's poorest residents and the multiple ways that they have shaped the urban landscape, ideas about property rights, and state housing policies. By examining th…
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History
Latin America and the Caribbean form a dynamic region of over 30 countries and over 600 million people. Since the European conquest, its history has been shaped by the entanglement between local and global political, economic, and cultural forces. Indigenous peoples, European settlers and migrants, and enslaved and later emancipated Africans contributed to the creation of a diverse yet unequal region. Today, Latin America sits at the crossroads o…
Paternalismo industrial, empresa extranjera y campamentos mineros en América Latina
El presente trabajo analiza las prácticas paternalistas desarrolladas por los empresarios industriales y mineros latinoamericanos durante la primera mitad del siglo XX. Desde la perspectiva de la historia del trabajo y de los recientes debates sobre lo transnacional, este artículo busca reflexionar en torno a los elementos comunes del paternalismo industrial a lo largo del continente así como su impacto en la configuración de las relaciones labor…
Historia política del cobre, 1945-2008
Joaquín Fermandois, Jimena Bustos, and María José Schneuer offer a compelling account of the ways in which politicians understood and discussed the role of the large- scale and foreign- owned copper industry in Chile from the end of World War II to 2008. In analyzing what they call the “copper debates,” the authors demonstrate that most Chilean politicians, despite their deep ideological differences, strongly believed that copper played a central…
Company Towns in the Americas
Company Towns in the Americas: Landscape, Power and Working-Class Communities By Oliver J. Dinius andAngeL· Ver gar a, Editors Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011. xi + 241 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8203-3329-8, $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8203-3682-4.Oliver Dinius and Angela Vergara have offered an edited volume on that presents a quite different and very comparative format, content, and series of a…
"Cuando El Río Suena, Piedras Trae"
Desde la perspectiva de la historia ambiental, en este trabajo se analiza el impacto de la Gran Minería del Cobre en la provincia de Chañaral entre 1938 y 1990. Específicamente se reconstruye la historia de las 350 toneladas de relaves que fueron vertidas en el río Salado y el Oceáno Pacífico primero por la empresa norteamericana Andes Copper y posteriormente por Codelco-Chile. Mientras las autoridades decidieron ignorar el problema, los habitant…
Children of Fate
"Children of Fate: Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850-1930, by Nara B. Milanich.." Canadian Journal of History, 46(2), pp. 428–429
Blacks of the Rosary
The Recognition of Silicosis
By the late 1930s, silicosis had become one of the most important occupational diseases in Chile. It was a medical and scientific problem, and a favorite topic in medical congresses; in Chile, a mining country, it also had serious political and economic implications. The recognition of silicosis did not happen in a vacuum, but was part of a national debate on the social role of the state and its responsibility toward working people's health and s…
Modernity in the Flesh
Las Tejanas
Foreword by Cynthia E.
Company towns and peripheral cities in the Chilean copper industry
This article discusses the relationship between company towns and peripheral cities by looking at the evolution of two Chilean towns between 1917 and the 1940s. It argues that the construction and the regulations of company towns created acute social conflicts and economic contradictions in urban settlements located in the periphery. It also analyses how the periphery both challenged the hegemonic dreams of planned communities and became a safety…
Paternalismo industrial, empresa extranjera y campamentos mineros en América Latina
El presente trabajo analiza las prácticas paternalistas desarrolladas por los empresarios industriales y mineros latinoamericanos durante la primera mitad del siglo XX. Desde la perspectiva de la historia del trabajo y de los recientes debates sobre lo transnacional, este artículo busca reflexionar en torno a los elementos comunes del paternalismo industrial a lo largo del continente así como su impacto en la configuración de las relaciones labor…
To See or Not to See
More than two-thirds of Latinx undergraduate students in the U.S. obtain their college degrees from Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI), a designation based on the proportion of students who are of Latinx descent and low-income, instead of any federal guidelines for serving Latinx students. Existing literature identifies factors that aid students’ success at HSIs, but there is little knowledge about how Latinx students experience newly designated…
Company towns and peripheral cities in the Chilean copper industry
This article discusses the relationship between company towns and peripheral cities by looking at the evolution of two Chilean towns between 1917 and the 1940s. It argues that the construction and the regulations of company towns created acute social conflicts and economic contradictions in urban settlements located in the periphery. It also analyses how the periphery both challenged the hegemonic dreams of planned communities and became a safety…
Company towns and peripheral cities in the Chilean copper industry
This article discusses the relationship between company towns and peripheral cities by looking at the evolution of two Chilean towns between 1917 and the 1940s. It argues that the construction and the regulations of company towns created acute social conflicts and economic contradictions in urban settlements located in the periphery. It also analyses how the periphery both challenged the hegemonic dreams of planned communities and became a safety…
Las Tejanas
Foreword by Cynthia E.
The Recognition of Silicosis
By the late 1930s, silicosis had become one of the most important occupational diseases in Chile. It was a medical and scientific problem, and a favorite topic in medical congresses; in Chile, a mining country, it also had serious political and economic implications. The recognition of silicosis did not happen in a vacuum, but was part of a national debate on the social role of the state and its responsibility toward working people's health and s…
Modernity in the Flesh
Blacks of the Rosary
Company Towns in the Americas
Company Towns in the Americas: Landscape, Power and Working-Class Communities By Oliver J. Dinius andAngeL· Ver gar a, Editors Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011. xi + 241 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8203-3329-8, $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8203-3682-4.Oliver Dinius and Angela Vergara have offered an edited volume on that presents a quite different and very comparative format, content, and series of a…
"Cuando El Río Suena, Piedras Trae"
Desde la perspectiva de la historia ambiental, en este trabajo se analiza el impacto de la Gran Minería del Cobre en la provincia de Chañaral entre 1938 y 1990. Específicamente se reconstruye la historia de las 350 toneladas de relaves que fueron vertidas en el río Salado y el Oceáno Pacífico primero por la empresa norteamericana Andes Copper y posteriormente por Codelco-Chile. Mientras las autoridades decidieron ignorar el problema, los habitant…
Children of Fate
"Children of Fate: Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850-1930, by Nara B. Milanich.." Canadian Journal of History, 46(2), pp. 428–429
Paternalismo industrial, empresa extranjera y campamentos mineros en América Latina
El presente trabajo analiza las prácticas paternalistas desarrolladas por los empresarios industriales y mineros latinoamericanos durante la primera mitad del siglo XX. Desde la perspectiva de la historia del trabajo y de los recientes debates sobre lo transnacional, este artículo busca reflexionar en torno a los elementos comunes del paternalismo industrial a lo largo del continente así como su impacto en la configuración de las relaciones labor…
Historia política del cobre, 1945-2008
Joaquín Fermandois, Jimena Bustos, and María José Schneuer offer a compelling account of the ways in which politicians understood and discussed the role of the large- scale and foreign- owned copper industry in Chile from the end of World War II to 2008. In analyzing what they call the “copper debates,” the authors demonstrate that most Chilean politicians, despite their deep ideological differences, strongly believed that copper played a central…
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History
Latin America and the Caribbean form a dynamic region of over 30 countries and over 600 million people. Since the European conquest, its history has been shaped by the entanglement between local and global political, economic, and cultural forces. Indigenous peoples, European settlers and migrants, and enslaved and later emancipated Africans contributed to the creation of a diverse yet unequal region. Today, Latin America sits at the crossroads o…
Revisiting Pampa Irigoin
This essay examines urban social movements and state repression in 1960s Chile. Housing became a central political and social demand in Cold War Chile, and poor urban dwellers organized and challenged state authorities and traditional property laws. Through the history of Pampa Irigoin (Puerto Montt, 1969), a land occupation and brutal police repression in the south of the country, this essay demonstrates the growing tensions in Chilean cities an…
For a Proper Home
Edward Murphy provides an engaging, well-researched, and bottom-up historical account of low-income residents in Santiago, Chile, from the 1960s to 2010. Looking at a time of rapid urban growth and dramatic political and economic transformations, the author analyzes the struggles of Santiago's poorest residents and the multiple ways that they have shaped the urban landscape, ideas about property rights, and state housing policies. By examining th…
Fernando Purcell, ¡Muchos extranjeros para mi gusto! Mexicanos, chilenos e irlandeses en la construcción de California, 1848–1880 (Mexico City and Santiago
Fernando Purcell, ¡Muchos extranjeros para mi gusto! Mexicanos, chilenos e irlandeses en la construcción de California, 1848–1880 (Mexico City and Santiago: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2016), pp. 251, pb. - Volume 50 Issue 2
La Unidad Popular y los trabajadores
CURY, Márcia. O protagonismo popular. Experiências de classe e movimentossociais na construção do socialismo chileno (1964-1973). Campinas: UNICAMP,2017. (Traducción al español: El protagonismo popular chileno. Experiencias de clasey movimientos sociales en la construcción del socialismo (1964-1973). Santiago:LOM y Editora UNICAMP, 2018)
Historia política de Chile, 1810–2010 . Vol. 3, Problemas económicos
In Latin America, the bicentennial of independence and the influence of the new political history have sparked interest in the process of state formation, political communities, ideas, and the role of the state in society and the economy. In light of this historiographical turn, Historia política de Chile, 1810–2010, a four-volume series coordinated by Iván Jaksić, examines the history of the country through the lens of the state and political pr…
‘To work more, produce more and defend the revolution’
On 11 July 1971, Chile’s National Congress, in a historic vote, unanimously approved reforming the constitution, which opened the door to nationalise the large-scale copper industry. Traditional historical accounts of the nationalisation of copper had emphasised a history of negotiations between foreign capital and the Chilean government, documenting how economists and political leaders experimented with different approaches to obtain a share of …
Amamantar
Diplomacy from the Bottom Up
The history of U.S.-Latin American relations during the long 1960s has long attracted diplomatic scholars. The aftermath of the Cuban Revolution (1959), U.S. President John F. Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress, and the U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic (1965) are pivotal chapters in the history of the global Cold War. In The Gathering Storm, Sebastián Hurtado-Torres contributes to this growing literature by focusing on U.S.-Chilean foreign re…
Fighting for the Right to Decent Work
Latin American Extractivism
Latin Americanists have long debated the possibilities, limits, and contradictions of economies dependent on the extraction and export of natural resources. During the Cold War era, revolutionary leaders, such as Salvador Allende in Chile, nationalized foreign-owned companies but did not question their countries' dependency on commodities. Indeed, they envisioned the new nationalized mining and energy companies as the engine of economic and socia…
To See or Not to See
More than two-thirds of Latinx undergraduate students in the U.S. obtain their college degrees from Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI), a designation based on the proportion of students who are of Latinx descent and low-income, instead of any federal guidelines for serving Latinx students. Existing literature identifies factors that aid students’ success at HSIs, but there is little knowledge about how Latinx students experience newly designated…
Los pirquineros de la Gran Minería
Objective/context: Between the late 1950s and 1978, around 400 artisanal miners (pirquineros) occupied and worked the abandoned Potrerillos mine, known as Mina Vieja (Old Mine). Located on the margins of the territory of a large mining company—first Andes Copper (a subsidiary of Anaconda) and then Cobresal (part of the state-owned company Codelco)—these miners attempted to build an autonomous community by recovering an abandoned and degraded site…
Political science (16 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Politics (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · State (computer science) (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Economy (4 works)