• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Spatial Frontiers and Neo-communitarian Identities in the City: The Case of Santiago de Chile
  • Beteiligte: Márquez, Francisca B.; Pérez, Francisca P.
  • Erschienen: SAGE Publications, 2008
  • Erschienen in: Urban Studies, 45 (2008) 7, Seite 1461-1483
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1177/0042098008090684
  • ISSN: 0042-0980; 1360-063X
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  • Beschreibung: 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'.