Urban community kitchens
Introduction
It is called common pot or also popular pot to an instance of community participation between neighbors and residents who seek to resolve the basic need to eat.[1] It is very similar to a soup kitchen, although with a more self-managed and independent character.[2].
The communal pots are developed in different ways: collecting food from neighbors or by collecting money in chapels, parishes and neighborhood meetings to purchase food. They are born within social contexts of poverty and unemployment, as subsistence organizations[3] or "popular micro-associations that were developed to satisfy a basic and functional need", hunger.[4].
An ethnography and sociopolitical, socioeconomic, and cultural analysis of communal pots is the anthropological work of Ricardo Sabogal-Suji, Ph.D., where the author explains the strong correlation between communal pots and corruption.[1].
History
Great Depression
The Great Depression caused a strong economic crisis between 1930 and 1932, affecting exports of saltpeter and copper, which is why it has been considered the nation most affected by the crisis.[5].
The economic crisis increased unemployment rates and caused a migration of unemployed saltpeter miners from northern Chile to the capital, Santiago. Due to the unemployment of nitrate workers, common pots multiplied in the country's capital, and homeless people began to live in caves in the hills that surround said city.[5].
Resurgence in the 1980s
The implementation of the neoliberal system and the new institutionality of the military dictatorship "Military Dictatorship (Chile)") (1973-1990), promised economic growth at the cost of increasing external debt,[6] the so-called "Miracle of Chile." Despite these apparent figures, the popular sectors were located in a kind of "parallel world" since unemployment - which already reached 30% by 1983 -[7] the notable decrease in purchasing power, the eradication of marginal housing and the repressive blockade suffered by the populations, showed in a certain sense, the violent and segregating focus of the system that had been built and justified through figures that portrayed an apparent "progress". economic."