The lived city: everyday experiences, urban scenarios, and topological networks

Abstract

Abstract. The general subject of this text is the contemporary city, understood as a lived territory: it develops a theoretical–methodological approach to the sociospatial construction of urban territory that integrates both the material and the nonmaterial. The sociospatial construction of the lived city is approached via an articulated set of analytical levels. Accordingly, the first part presents the level of the spatial practices and the urban imaginaries that accompany them. The second part integrates the incorporated affectivity that acts and territorializes itself in the everyday life of the city. The third part considers urban scenarios as situational articulations of the subjects of the two previous parts. Individual topological networks are then incorporated as sequences of urban scenarios that integrate the subjects' biography, leading on to the crisscrossing of different topological networks in an approximation of the lived city in all its fragmented, dense, and fluid complexity.

Territorial subjectivities. The missing link between political subjectivity and territorialization

“…In her view, the territorial subjectivities emerging in Mexico City’s peripheries are organized along a spectrum from non-belonging to belonging and thus become relevant for processes of identification (Lindón, 2002: 37). In societal terms, as Lindón writes in a more recent paper, territory expresses subjects’ adherence to social groups and is therefore linked to collective identities, wielding influence over social relationships (Lindón, 2019: 31).…”

La periferia: fragmentos inestables de la ciudad vivida

“…Alicia Lindón decir, de lo vivido) (Seamon, 2007;Lindón, 2019), y no tanto desde las perspectivas de la movilidad espacial en sí misma 3 : un mismo desplazamiento en cierto tiempo puede configurar una experiencia particular para cierta persona y una muy diferente para otra que viaja junto a la primera. En esas diferencias podrán mediar las rememoraciones que cada una realiza de otros desplazamientos vividos, en el mismo trayecto o en otros, aunque también podrían configurar la experiencia en cuestión otras dimensiones de ese presente vivido o de situaciones pasadas que, de alguna forma, la persona conecta con el desplazamiento actual.…”

Maximum exposure: Making sense in the background of extensive urbanization

“…Here, I want to emphasize that urbanization is also extensive , not only in the sense that it covers more ground or becomes an increasingly hegemonic modality of spatial and social production, but that it also incorporates a wide range of logics, social and cultural processes, and vernaculars, thus exposing residents to a larger set factors at work in shaping their own daily experiences. Urbanization is extensive in that it interrelates all aspects of life that previously could be bounded, separated in space and time (Amin and Thrift, 2016; Lindón, 2019; Soja, 2005). As such, the notion of “extended” can also apply to the ways in which some residents extend their attentional fields beyond the immediacy of their daily work and residential situations to a larger, more encompassing imaging of the city and region in which their lives are ensconced.…”