The Displacement of the Possible: Popular Experience and Gentrification at Historic Center of Mexico City

This paper studies the displacement of popular sectors in the Historic Center of Mexico City as part of the gentrification process in this space. Particularly, it analyzes a form of displacement that the author defines as ‘the displacement in popular horizons of the possible’, and supposes a reinter...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Moctezuma Mendoza, Vicente
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Ecuador
Institución:Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales
Repositorio:Revista ICONOS
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec:article/2120
Acceso en línea:https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/2120
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Renovação urbana
gentrificação
deslocamento
setores populares
centro histórico da Cidade do México
América Latina.
Renovación urbana
gentrificación
desplazamiento
sectores populares
centro histórico de la Ciudad de México
urban renovation
gentrification
displacement
popular sectors
Historic Center of Mexico City
Latin America.
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Sumario:This paper studies the displacement of popular sectors in the Historic Center of Mexico City as part of the gentrification process in this space. Particularly, it analyzes a form of displacement that the author defines as ‘the displacement in popular horizons of the possible’, and supposes a reinterpretation – from the characteristics of the gentrification processes in Latin America and the anthropologic fieldwork- of the definition of ‘exclusionary displacement’ proposed by Peter Marcuse. Displacement is analyzed through an ethnographic approach to some residential itineraries that account for popular sectors different rooting constructions during the second half of the twentieth century and the review of the permanence or disappearance of such conditions in the contemporary context.