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Subjective segregation at the local scale: the case of the village Francisco Coloane, Puente Alto, Santiago de Chile

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  • Luis Armando Valadez Betancourt Posgrado de Geografía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México.
No. 60 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5370.2020.58908
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Abstract

The objective of this article is to examine in depth the subjective segregation, understood as the set of spatial representations, the production of symbolic borders and especially the processes of territorial stigmatization that are presented in a peripheral social housing urbanization in Santiago de Chile, in the current neoliberal context, characterized by the mercantilization of social rights, among these, housing. The analysis, based on deep-interviews to leaderships and functionaries directed related with the case, allows us to reject the "spatialist" hypothesis about the origin of these representations ─which are usually attributed to habitat deterioration─ and to propose instead that they are generated within the framework of a strategy that articulates business interests with political and ideological control. However, the resistances that emerge from the territory have been able to invert this logic and try to return the symbolic centrality to the precarized periphery.

Keywords:

Local space , micro-xenophobia , spatial devolutions , subjective segregation , symbolic borders , territorial stigmas.
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Valadez Betancourt, L. A. (2020). Subjective segregation at the local scale: the case of the village Francisco Coloane, Puente Alto, Santiago de Chile. Investigaciones Geográficas, (60), 101–118. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5370.2020.58908
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Universidad de Chile
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