TY  - SER
AU  -  Vergara-Perucich, José-Francisco
AU  - Arias-Loyola, Martín 
TI  - Bread for advancing the right to the city: academia, grassroots groups and the first cooperative bakery in a Chilean informal settlement
PY  - 2019///
PB  - Sage
KW  - Antofagasta, autonomy
KW  -  campamentos
KW  -  Chile
KW  -  cooperativism
KW  -  right to the city
KW  -  role of academia / self-management
N2  - This article describes the creation of a cooperative bakery whose significance is fourfold: (1) it is the first located inside a Chilean campamento (informal settlement); (2) it was organized and managed by inhabitants, mostly Latin American immigrant women; (3) its implementation faced diverse conflicts that serve as lessons for similar experiences; and (4) it provides evidence from the field about strategies for advancing the right to the city agenda. The bakery was conceived by the community as a strategy to control the means of production. The study used a critical research approach, whereby researchers assumed an active role in the community processes around the formation of the cooperative. The article discusses the potential of cooperative socioeconomic organization as a path to developing community autonomy. It presents the Rayito de Sol bakery with its highs and lows, and reflects on the results of the project as a spatial, social and political approach to the relationship between academic communities and public institutions
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247819866156
ER  -