Abstract

UBILLA-BRAVO, Gerardo. Power Relations Among the Peri-Urban Actors around the Communal Regulatory Plan: Analyzing Territorial Governance. Cuad. Geogr. Rev. Colomb. Geogr. [online]. 2020, vol.29, n.2, pp.455-472. ISSN 0121-215X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcdg.v29n2.75249.

Since the 1973 coup d'état, a series of socio-spatial transformations occurred in Chile that generated an increase in the asymmetry of the concentration of wealth and power. Peri-urban areas are the spaces that have undergone the fastest changes, reflecting the interests of multiple actors. Considering this background, the question that guides this research is: What is the power relationship of the actors that inhabit and intervene in the peri-urban area of Melipilla? To answer it, we develop a framework to mobilize the following concepts: actors, a system of action, power, institutions, instruments, territorial, and peri-urban governance. Then we conducted 23 semi-structured interviews and applied the techniques on historical analysis and content analysis. Thus, the results divide into two sections: the trajectory of the Communal Regulatory Plan action system (2013-2015) and the power relations between the actors. This work contributes to the emergence of six categories of power relations based on the territorial governance approach, and verifies the asymmetry and rupture of the centralist power flow in Chile.

Main ideas: Research article analyzing the six power relations between peri-urban actors around an instrument of urban regulation in Chile (Plan Regulador Comunal) under the approach of territorial governance. It verifies the asymmetry and rupture of the centralist power flow in Chile.

Keywords : Chile; territorial governance; peri-urban area; Communal Regulatory Plan; power relationship.

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