Precarious settlements, social intervention and disasters. observations in ten shantytowns in Concepción county

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Precarious settlements
social intervention
disasters
threatens
vulnerabilities

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Issue: No. 21 (2021): TS Cuadernos de Trabajo Social, Marzo 2021
Section: Artículos de investigación empírica

Abstract

Precarious settlements are places in the city that are subject to different types of threats and vulnerabilities in case of potential disasters. The territory of Concepción, in the Biobío region, is an area particularly susceptible to experience disasters of natural and anthropic origin. Therefore, it is of interest to observe which are in particular these dynamic pressures that would affect these settlements with the greatest intensity. Ten precarious settlements located in the city of Concepción have been studied and the settlements have a formal link with the Precarious Settlements Program of the Ministry of Housing. For this article, a guideline for observation in the field of threats and vulnerabilities of disasters was elaborated, based on the proposal of CIGIDEN (2019). The results show the invisibility of the settlements as places susceptible to experience the consequences of the disaster, especially in the face of the consequences of extreme weather events (storms, floods, mass removal) and fires in precarious homes and facilities. The conclusions discuss about the kind of social intervention in a neoliberal context, in which shantytowns are a in a “non-place” forgovernmental design of disaster-approach politics

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Juan Saavedra Vásquez
Valeska Melo Manríquez
Saavedra Vásquez, J., & Melo Manríquez, V. (2021). Precarious settlements, social intervention and disasters. observations in ten shantytowns in Concepción county. TS Cuadernos De Trabajo Social, (21), 75 - 90. Retrieved from https://tscuadernosdetrabajosocial.cl/index.php/TS/article/view/184

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