Villa Capataces CAP and the construction of the huachipatina identity: looks around the past and present of a particular neighborhood identity

Abstract

In this article, the process of construction of the Villa Capataces CAP is addressed. This neighborhood was characterized, in its first decades of life, by having a particular identity linked to the Huachipato Steel Company, since this industry maintained a close relation with its inhabitants, who, for the most part, were workers. Various mechanisms promoted by the steel company and its paternalistic actions influenced the configuration and reaffirmation of this identity, facilitating the recognition of the other-inhabitant as a similar and the differentiation with respect to those who were not part of this "huachipatina family".