Gabriel
Gabriel Salazar Vergara, a Chilean historian was born 31 January 1936. Chile is known for the study of sociology as well as his theories of movement. He played a prominent role in the student protests of between 2011-12 and the year 2006. Salazar was born into a lower class family. He was educated in history along with sociology and philosophy on the Universidad de Chile, and in the past, was an working as an assistant for the historian Mario Gongora and classical historian Hector Herrera Cajas. [1] Salazar used to be a member of the Revolutionary Left Movement until 1973. Military tortured him at Villa Grimaldi during that year. In 1976, he was released from a prison camp for military and was exiled to the United Kingdom. He was given a grant to further his education at the University of Hull. He earned an PhD on Economic and Social History from the university in 1984. In the following year, he returned Chile. Salazar made a breakthrough in 1985. His work is largely unnoticed. His subject of study has included labourers, peons, proletarians, child females and huachos. 1. Salazar is one of the founders of the historiographic movement known as Nueva Historia Social. Salazar believes that history is an efficient tool to facilitate the social sphere. Interview with Salazar: Salazar claimed that he is a "leftist social historian, critical" and he rejected the term "Marxist".




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