Post 6. A Person on my field that I admire

Hi! Today I'm going to talk about Gladys Armijo Zúñiga. She was a teacher of History and Geography and doctor in Geography. She was a director of the Geography departament of our University. She pass away in february, 2008 aged 67. 

I knew about her when I studied in Pedagógico, there my teachers were her disciples. I became very close to some of them and had a lot of long conversations about Gladys and the ideas that she defended.

 

The first text that I read of her was "Antagonismos y Contradicciones en la Nueva Ruralidad del Campo de la Región Metropolitana de Santiago". Here she explains how the neoliberalism has change the dynamics in the field, how the farmers become proletarians or another working methods, like the women who started to work as temporary workers in agriculture activities. 

She is really a powerful example of ethic in the academy, what I like more of her work is how she always put the focus of her investigations in the Space full of significances, and not like an abstraction. 

I really think that her work should be more recognized, but the academy is very full of egos and sexism. So my invitation is to read her and follow her example, making our work as geographers with dedication and ethic.