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Wiesenfeld, Esther
Seidmann, Susana
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spa
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338 p.
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Montevideo (inhabited place)
Abstract
This Phd thesisaddresses the relationship between the production of residential space in popular neighborhoods of Montevideo and the subjective formations that take place in them from the neoliberal capitalist urbanization that takes place from the 70s of the 20th century to the present in the region. As an effect of the transformations experienced, these neighborhoods acquire an important residential diversity that derives in the construction of different us and us-others among the inhabitants, which demand to problematize the ethicalpolitical dimension involved in the construction of the common and in the treatment of differences in geographical proximity spaces. The thesis sets out to discuss the approaches that address the macro-economic and social processes that explain residential segregation and urban poverty, with the subjective formations that are expressed in the daily life of the popular neighborhoods, understood as constitutive of the production, reproduction, resistance and transformation of the capitalist city Starting from Community Social Psychology (CSP) and Community Environmental Psychology (CEP), contributions from different disciplines (anthropology, geography, economics and sociology) and transdisciplinaries are articulated making them converge in a critical epistemology. The theoretical pathbegins with the notion of a capitalist city and its particularities in Latin America, with emphasis on the complex relationship between territorial segregation and social inequality. As a differentiated urban space we stop at the historical emergence of the neighborhood and the discussion about its validity for the analysis of residential proximity relations. We insist on the historical and productive dimension of space, in material and subjective terms.
We expose different perspectives on the relationship of people with spaces, proposing to conceive subjectivity as spatialized historical production, in permanent becoming, unfinished, that constitutes the subjects and that is part of the social, economic and political processes. From the contributions of the CSP, the notion of meanings of belonging addressed as constitutive of the sense of community is critically, analyzing the implications of the so-called Community Problem that places the quality of ourselves and the treatment of difference as central. The processes of social differentiation and the construction of otherings in their negative expression and in relation to the notions of diversity and inequality are analyzed.
In this research worked with a qualitative research approach, implementing a generic and paradigmatic Case Study (Flor de Maroñas neighborhood) and a Research-Action strategy, selecting people and groups from six different residential spaces. Observation techniques, group and individual interviews and meetings for the socialization and discussion of the results were used. An analysis of categorial thematic content of the information produced was carried out.
The main conclusion is that urban inequality occurs, reproduces and resists in its popular neighborhoods, while identifying conditions of possibility to disturb its dominant logics. These processes are sustained in the subjective formations linked to residential diversity, which are expressed in the character of the sense of belonging, in the quality of the we, in the contents and in the forms of otherness that are configured. The material, symbolic and resource inequalities of power are reproduced within the neighborhood, while the confrontation with the State is weak and non-existent with capital, making invisible the urban inequality and socio-historical conditions that produce it. These inequalities are also anchored in those who suffer them, giving an account of the material, symbolic and affective support of their legitimation.
There are two forms of otherness: a space-time otherness that organizes the experience in a before and now through a nostalgic story; and a spatialized otherness, which acquires the character of a radical differentiation between us and others. Both show the difficulty in processing the experienced territorial transformations and have the function of sustaining a threatened spatial social identity or of resisting stigmatization and segregation as a way of managing suffering. They are sustained in the conformation of us more or less homogenized, with more or less rigid borders. In some cases it is a we-presentified, which is being, coincident with the expression of sense of belonging and community, and in others it is a lost us from which negative meanings of community or ambivalent belongings derive.
The territorialization practices of the inhabitants are oriented in the struggle for the construction of urban social identities that make these spaces livable and allow them to be recognized as part of the city. We identified "spaces of possibility" or cracks that could open paths towards the construction of other forms of the common and of the different that suppose an ethical-political positioning.
The thesis addresses the CSP in the need to continue problematizing the notion of community and contributes to resituate the dimension of space and territory in the relations of geographical and residential proximity. In relation to the CEP it contributes to the emerging critical perspectives by hierarchizing a double movement: unsubstantialize spaces and spatializing subjectivities, which implies recognizing the relation and questioning it in order to deconstruct it as socio-historical-spatial production and politicize it. The thesis showed the incidence of public policies in the sense of belonging and otherness and the policies on the
formation, recomposition or transformation of social knit.
Front to the operations of fragmentation-homogenization-fragmentation characteristic of capitalist urbanization, it is proposed to conceive the residential diversity in the popular neighborhood as singular forms of inhabiting hierarchically interconnected and as an expression of a socio-historical continuity that can be disturbed.
We expose different perspectives on the relationship of people with spaces, proposing to conceive subjectivity as spatialized historical production, in permanent becoming, unfinished, that constitutes the subjects and that is part of the social, economic and political processes. From the contributions of the CSP, the notion of meanings of belonging addressed as constitutive of the sense of community is critically, analyzing the implications of the so-called Community Problem that places the quality of ourselves and the treatment of difference as central. The processes of social differentiation and the construction of otherings in their negative expression and in relation to the notions of diversity and inequality are analyzed.
In this research worked with a qualitative research approach, implementing a generic and paradigmatic Case Study (Flor de Maroñas neighborhood) and a Research-Action strategy, selecting people and groups from six different residential spaces. Observation techniques, group and individual interviews and meetings for the socialization and discussion of the results were used. An analysis of categorial thematic content of the information produced was carried out.
The main conclusion is that urban inequality occurs, reproduces and resists in its popular neighborhoods, while identifying conditions of possibility to disturb its dominant logics. These processes are sustained in the subjective formations linked to residential diversity, which are expressed in the character of the sense of belonging, in the quality of the we, in the contents and in the forms of otherness that are configured. The material, symbolic and resource inequalities of power are reproduced within the neighborhood, while the confrontation with the State is weak and non-existent with capital, making invisible the urban inequality and socio-historical conditions that produce it. These inequalities are also anchored in those who suffer them, giving an account of the material, symbolic and affective support of their legitimation.
There are two forms of otherness: a space-time otherness that organizes the experience in a before and now through a nostalgic story; and a spatialized otherness, which acquires the character of a radical differentiation between us and others. Both show the difficulty in processing the experienced territorial transformations and have the function of sustaining a threatened spatial social identity or of resisting stigmatization and segregation as a way of managing suffering. They are sustained in the conformation of us more or less homogenized, with more or less rigid borders. In some cases it is a we-presentified, which is being, coincident with the expression of sense of belonging and community, and in others it is a lost us from which negative meanings of community or ambivalent belongings derive.
The territorialization practices of the inhabitants are oriented in the struggle for the construction of urban social identities that make these spaces livable and allow them to be recognized as part of the city. We identified "spaces of possibility" or cracks that could open paths towards the construction of other forms of the common and of the different that suppose an ethical-political positioning.
The thesis addresses the CSP in the need to continue problematizing the notion of community and contributes to resituate the dimension of space and territory in the relations of geographical and residential proximity. In relation to the CEP it contributes to the emerging critical perspectives by hierarchizing a double movement: unsubstantialize spaces and spatializing subjectivities, which implies recognizing the relation and questioning it in order to deconstruct it as socio-historical-spatial production and politicize it. The thesis showed the incidence of public policies in the sense of belonging and otherness and the policies on the
formation, recomposition or transformation of social knit.
Front to the operations of fragmentation-homogenization-fragmentation characteristic of capitalist urbanization, it is proposed to conceive the residential diversity in the popular neighborhood as singular forms of inhabiting hierarchically interconnected and as an expression of a socio-historical continuity that can be disturbed.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales