Spatial Frontiers and Neo-communitarian Identities in the City: The Case of Santiago de Chile

Author:

Márquez Francisca B.1,Pérez Francisca P.2

Affiliation:

1. School of Anthropology, Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, University in Santiago, Condell 343, Providencia, Santiago, Chile,

2. Doctoral Programme of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile,

Abstract

This article analyses the different, yet similar, processes of identity-building used by poor and middle-income inhabitants of Santiago, Chile. It is suggested that these identity-building processes express the current type of urban segregation in this city and point to a weakening of the previously predominant model, which was based on the acceptance of social differences and daily exchanges between these sectors. Additionally, it is contended that the notion of `public space' and values, such as (political) citizenship and social integration, have weakened. Paradoxically, this `new' urban segregation has paved the way for a practice of neo-communitarian lifestyles, which supposedly reinforce the value of `us' and protect this `us' from the danger posed by `them'.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Urban Studies,Environmental Science (miscellaneous)

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