Gabriel

Gabriel Salazar Vergara (born 31 January 1936) is A Chilean historian from Chile. In Chile, he is popular for his studies on the social past and the study of how social movements are interpreted. The most recent examples are the student protests in 2006 and in 2011. Salazar was raised in an economically poor family. He was a student of philosophy, history and sociology at Universidad de Chile. He worked as an assistant to Mario Gongora, a classical historian and Hector Herrera Cajas, a historian. Salazar was an active Revolutionary Left Movement member from 1973 to 1973. Two years later, the group was assaulted in Villa Grimaldi by the military. [2] Having been released from a military prison camp in 1976 , he entered exile to the United Kingdom. In the United Kingdom, he received the opportunity to receive a scholarship to pursue his studies at the University of Hull. At that school, he earned an PhD diploma from the department of Economic and Social History in 1984. The following year, he returned to Chile. Salazar had been a bit unknown until 1985 when he made his first breakthrough. The subjects he studied included peons, labourers, proletarians, children's huachos[A] and women. Salazar was among the first members of Nueva Historia Social, a historiographic movement. Salazar believes that history is an effective instrument for actions in society. Salazar has stated that he's a leftist and critical social historian in an interview. He has resisted the "Marxist term."