The construction of the socio-territorial belonging: for Jurica, a town that became a city

Until the eighties urban anthropology studied urbanization generated by economic growth and expansion of cities from rural-urban migration, but little attention was given to the other side of the coin, the reverse process, meaning of, to the people who “became” the city. This article is about a town...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Osorio Franco, Lorena Erika
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2015
Country:México
Institution:UNIVERSIDAD DE GUADALAJARA
Repository:Espiral Estudios sobre Estado y Sociedad
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:espiral.cucsh.udg.mx:article/251
Online Access:http://espiral.cucsh.udg.mx/index.php/EEES/article/view/251
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Urbanización
espacio
cultura
pertenencia socioterritorial
identidad
Urbanization
space
culture
socio-territorial belonging
identity
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Summary:Until the eighties urban anthropology studied urbanization generated by economic growth and expansion of cities from rural-urban migration, but little attention was given to the other side of the coin, the reverse process, meaning of, to the people who “became” the city. This article is about a town located north of the Querétaro city, the study case of Jurica proved to be a good example to account for the various ways in which the natural environment is transformed due to the urban-industrial activities. I was particularly interested in analyzing the relationship between territory and culture because in that from it is possible to distinguish identity references, which are (re)constructed on a spatial and temporal framework that transforms according metropolitan expansion progresses.