The neighborhood dimension at the crossroads of communication, city and public space. An ethnographic view of the contemporary urban subjectivation Abstract. We propose the neighborhood dimension as a key for understanding urban phenomena in relation to its inhabitants' practices, trying at the same time to give rise to the heterogeneity and connection of perspectives and experiences. In the introduction, we delineate the proposal's scope, its relationship with communication, the city and the public space. Then, we focus on urban communication as a universe of mediations that inevitably express and thus produce subjectivity, and on ethnographic cases where intentional and involuntary dynamics can be observed in their effects. Later, we problematize the distinction between neighborhood and urban area, also based on ethnographic cases, to affirm a compositional perspective of the territories, according to the multiplicity of elements and their relative scales. Finally, we conclude by taking up the problematization of the public space and formulating wider considerations about similar spheres in other senses and practices.
Resumen. En este artículo nos centramos en el estudio de los espacios de la intimidad, intentando poner en juego esta dimensión muchas veces dejada de lado en los estudios sobre comunicación y ciudad. Nuestro análisis se inscribe en una investigación etnográfica más amplia, en relación a las transformaciones en el hábitat y las formas de habitar a partir de las acciones de un plan socio-habitacional estatal en Uruguay. En primer lugar, proponemos un desplazamiento conceptual desde la noción de lo privado a la de lo íntimo. En segundo término, tratamos las estrategias y tácticas de abordaje de la intimidad surgidas en nuestro trabajo de campo. Posteriormente, nos sumergimos en dos casos de estudio que permiten tratar las cuestiones centrales al respecto. Palabras clave: intimidad / narrativas / espacialidad / comunicación / plan habitacional Glimpsing Intimacies: Spatial Narratives in TransitSummary. In this paper we focus in studying intimate spaces, aiming at putting into play this dimension often times set aside by communication and studies of cities. Our analysis is part of a wider research of ethnographic nature about the transformation of the habitat and ways of dwelling, parting from the actions of a social housing plan in Uruguay. First, we propose a conceptual shift from the notion of the private to the intimate. Second, we address the strategies and tactics of the intimacy approach that emerged from our fieldwork. Later, we dive into two case studies that allow addressing our central questions.
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