SOCIAL THEORY AT WORK

ANALYZING MULTI-LEVEL POWER RELATIONS IN THE REDEVELOPMENT OF CONCEPCIÓN'S RIVERFRONT, CHILE

Abstract

While many geographers have focused on the structural conditions inftuencing the reconfiguration of urban areas in Latin America, the concrete ways in which actors attempt to advance particularistic interests and the relations of cooperation, cooptation, and resistance generated among actors remain largely ignored. This gap in the urban literature can be explained by the lack of an analytical framework to study how power is executed in particular social contexts. Based on theoretical elements derived from the work of Anthony Giddens and Michel Foucault, | suggest and apply a framework to disentangle power relations at work in the redevelopment of Concepción's riverfront.