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

Francisca B. Márquez and Francisca P. Pérez
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Francisca B. Márquez: School of Anthropology, Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, University in Santiago, Condell 343, Providencia, Santiago, Chile, fmarquez@academia.cl
Francisca P. Pérez: Doctoral Programme of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, fperez@academia.cl

Urban Studies, 2008, vol. 45, issue 7, 1461-1483

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'.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098008090684

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