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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| 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 |
| 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. |
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