TY - JOUR
T1 - Contested and interdependent appropriation of space in a multicultural commercial neighbourhood of Santiago, Chile
AU - Ramírez, Carolina
AU - Stefoni, Carolina
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This article examines experiences of making, inhabiting and appropriating space, in relation to the transformations of the political economy in an increasingly multicultural urban setting. Through processes of social production and construction of space, it explores the material, societal and symbolic processes at play. The entry points are memories, images, uses and material connection to Patronato neighbourhood (Santiago, Chile) by people of Korean and Palestinian ancestry. It analyses how claims of space authenticity, processes of ethnicisation and material appropriation of space–commonly understood as given by ‘cultural differences’–respond to historical, economic and political shifts happening at a global and local level. Moreover, challenging the prism of socioeconomic conflict and separation, it shows emerging dynamics of social interdependence and adjustment, taking place alongside the reorganisation of ethnic boundaries. Such reorganisation allows settled migrants to develop a sense of belonging and control over space in a rapidly changing neoliberal city.
AB - This article examines experiences of making, inhabiting and appropriating space, in relation to the transformations of the political economy in an increasingly multicultural urban setting. Through processes of social production and construction of space, it explores the material, societal and symbolic processes at play. The entry points are memories, images, uses and material connection to Patronato neighbourhood (Santiago, Chile) by people of Korean and Palestinian ancestry. It analyses how claims of space authenticity, processes of ethnicisation and material appropriation of space–commonly understood as given by ‘cultural differences’–respond to historical, economic and political shifts happening at a global and local level. Moreover, challenging the prism of socioeconomic conflict and separation, it shows emerging dynamics of social interdependence and adjustment, taking place alongside the reorganisation of ethnic boundaries. Such reorganisation allows settled migrants to develop a sense of belonging and control over space in a rapidly changing neoliberal city.
KW - Ethnic boundaries
KW - Latin America
KW - ethnicization
KW - migrant entrepreneurs
KW - social space
KW - urban space
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85071181211&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/1070289X.2019.1658394
DO - 10.1080/1070289X.2019.1658394
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85071181211
SN - 1070-289X
VL - 28
SP - 166
EP - 185
JO - Identities
JF - Identities
IS - 2
ER -