Gabriel

Gabriel Salazar Vergara (born 31 January 1936) is an Chilean historian from Chile. He is recognized in his country for his study of social history and interpretations of popular movements, including the student protests that took place in 2006 and 2011-12. Salazar was born into a low-income family. He studied historical, sociology , and the philosophy department on the Universidad de Chile, and during his time, he served as advisor to historical historian Mario Gongora and classical historian Hector Herrera Cajas. [1] Salazar was a member of the Revolutionary Left Movement until 1973. He was tortured by the military in Villa Grimaldi during that year. After being released from a prison for soldiers in 1976 he went into exile within The United Kingdom. Here he was granted the opportunity to receive a scholarship to study further at University of Hull. In the same university, he was awarded an PhD degree with a focus on Economic and Social History in 1984. In the following year, he returned Chile. Salazar was relatively unknown until the year 1985, when he achieved his first breakthrough. His subjects of research have included labourers, peons proletariats, child Huachos, women and children. (1) Salazar is one of the pioneers of the historiographic movement known as Nueva Historia Social. Salazar believes that history is an effective tool to guide social action. In interview he has declared himself a "leftist, critique socio-historical historian" and has rejected the term "Marxist"