Place -making and construction of informal settlements in Mexico
Informal settlements are commonly regarded as a problem; such a condition stems from their association with poverty, irregularity and marginalization. Despite years of research proving the opposite, policies and academic discourses still highlight the division between “formal” and ”informal” cities,...
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oai:ojs.revistas.uchile.cl:article-626492015-04-30T10:04:11Z Place -making and construction of informal settlements in Mexico Lugarización y la construcción de asentamientos informales en México Lombard, Melanie Informal settlements are commonly regarded as a problem; such a condition stems from their association with poverty, irregularity and marginalization. Despite years of research proving the opposite, policies and academic discourses still highlight the division between “formal” and ”informal” cities, which often excludes informal settlements from “normal” urban considerations. This paper argues that discursive construction increases the marginalized condition of informal settlements, thus affecting their residents. Through the use of a “place-making” approach, we explore the construction of a place according to discursive, spatial, social, cultural and political elements in order to destabilize some of the assumptions underlying the discourses on marginalization. This research was carried out using a qualitative methodology in two lowincome settlements located in Xalapa, Mexico. Results show that local discourses reveal complex and ambivalent opinions about working-class settlements, thereby reproducing and affecting the binary categorization of “informality”. However, it is the focus on the residents own place-making activities that determines the possibility of rethinking informal settlements. Los asentamientos informales son, con frecuencia vistos como problemáticos debido a la asociación que se hace de ellos con la pobreza, la irregularidad y la marginalización. En particular, a pesar de años de investigación mostrando lo contrario, las políticas y los discursos académicos continúan destacando la división entre la ciudad ‘formal’ e ‘informal’, lo que hace que los asentamientos informales sean a menudo vistos como fuera de las consideraciones urbanas ‘normales’. Este artículo argumenta que la construcción discursiva sobre los asentamientos informales contribuye a su marginalización, trayendo efectos tangibles para los residentes. Usando un enfoque de ‘lugarización’, se explora, en este contexto, la construcción de lugar discursiva, espacial, social, cultural y política para desestabilizar algunos de los supuestos en que se basan los discursos de marginalización. La investigación se llevó a cabo usando una metodología cualitativa en dos colonias populares en Xalapa, México. Se encontró que los discursos locales revelan opiniones complejas y ambivalentes sobre las colonias populares, y que estos discursos a su vez reproducen y perjudican la categorización binaria sobre la ‘informalidad’. Sin embargo, es el enfoque sobre las actividades de lugarización de los mismos habitantes el que determina las posibilidades de replantear los asentamientos informales. Revista INVI 2015-01-21 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62649 Revista INVI; Vol. 30 Núm. 83 (2015); 117-146 0718-8358 0718-1299 spa https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62649/66542 https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62649/66551 |
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Informal settlements are commonly regarded as a problem; such a condition stems from their association with poverty, irregularity and marginalization. Despite years of research proving the opposite, policies and academic discourses still highlight the division between “formal” and ”informal” cities, which often excludes informal settlements from “normal” urban considerations. This paper argues that discursive construction increases the marginalized condition of informal settlements, thus affecting their residents. Through the use of a “place-making” approach, we explore the construction of a place according to discursive, spatial, social, cultural and political elements in order to destabilize some of the assumptions underlying the discourses on marginalization. This research was carried out using a qualitative methodology in two lowincome settlements located in Xalapa, Mexico. Results show that local discourses reveal complex and ambivalent opinions about working-class settlements, thereby reproducing and affecting the binary categorization of “informality”. However, it is the focus on the residents own place-making activities that determines the possibility of rethinking informal settlements. |
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