“Por el Bien Común”: identidades profesionales, negociaciones sociales y la formación de la clase media en Bogotá, 1958-1965

Abel Ricardo López Pedreros

doi:10.17533/udea.trahs.n6a07

Authors

Abel Ricardo López Pedreros Western Washington University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.trahs.n6a07

Keywords:

middle classes, social identities, democracy, Cold War, National Front.

Abstract

By appropriating the concept of social negotiation, the article discusses how, since the beginning of the National Front in Colombia in 1958, professional women and men working for national and local states negotiated their identities as part of a middle class. The chapter also demonstrates how these women and men shaped development programs such as the Alliance for Progress. Through these negotiations, these professionals sought to legitimize themselves as the source of democratic government in an eternal opposition to those who were defined as the supreme representation of anti-democracy.

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Author Biography

Abel Ricardo López Pedreros, Western Washington University

Doctor in Latin American History from the University of Maryland (United States) the thesis “A Beautiful Class, an Irresistible Democracy”. He has written several articles on the formation of the middle class in Colombia and edited the book The Making of the Middle Class: Toward. Toward a Transnational History (Durham, N.C .: Duke University Press, 2012). He is currently a professor at Western Washington University (United States).

References

FUENTES MANUSCRITAS

Archivo de la Presidencia, Bogotá, Colombia

Archivo Instituto de Fomento Industrial (AIFI)

Archivo Ministerio de Agricultura y Cooperativa Técnica Colombo-Americana, (STACA)

Archivo del Centro Inter-Americano de Vivienda y Planeamiento (CINVA)

FUENTES ORALES

Alicia Perdomo, entrevista realizada por A. Ricardo López. [Bogotá], noviembre, 2004.

PERIÓDICOS Y REVISTAS

Time (New York) 1957.

US News & World Report (Washington D.C.) 1957.

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