El espacio público en conflicto: coordenadas conceptuales y tensiones ideológicas

• Andrés Di Masso Tarditti ^[1] ; Héctor Berroeta ^[2] ; Tomeu Vidal Moranta ^[1]
  1. [1] Universitat de Barcelona

     Universitat de Barcelona

     Barcelona, España

     
  2. [2] Universidad de Valparaíso

     Universidad de Valparaíso

     Valparaíso, Chile

     
• Localización: Athenea Digital: revista de pensamiento e investigación social, ISSN-e 1578-8946, Vol. 17, Nº. 3, 2017, págs. 53-92
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.5565/rev/athenea.1725
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Public space in conflict: conceptual coordinates and ideological tensions
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• Resumen
  • español

    En este artículo aportamos herramientas conceptuales y argumentativas para pensar y problematizar la noción de “espacio público”. Comenzamos esbozando los principales marcos discursivos desde los que se define “el espacio público” como objeto de reflexión en los estudios urbanos. Asumiendo la crítica neo-marxista al ideal normativo del espacio público como estándar ideológico mistificador de desigualdades sociales estructurales, subrayamos la inadecuación teórica y política resultante de ignorar la naturaleza contestada del espacio público como ámbito de territorialización de procesos y luchas sociales más amplios. Desarrollamos esta concepción crítica del espacio público como un lugar en el que se articula materialmente una disputa de orden ideológico en torno a la definición de los contornos de la publicidad legítima y la naturalización clasista del derecho a censurar y a excluir. Finalmente, señalamos algunas de las modalidades de conflicto urbano más prominentes que apuntalan esta visión desestabilizadora del espacio público normativo.

  • English

    In this article we provide conceptual and argumentative tools to think and to problematize the notion of “public space”. We start outlining the main discursive frames that are usually used to define “the public space” as a research object in urban studies. Drawing on the neo-Marxist critique to the normative ideal of public space as an ideological standard that mystifies structural social inequalities, we underline the theoretical and political inadequacy that derives from ignoring the contested nature of public space as an arena for the territorialisation of broader social struggles. We develop this critical view of public space as a site in which an ideological dispute takes place, revolving around the definition of the boundaries of the legitimate publics and the classist naturalization of the right to exclude. Finally, we outline some of the most common modalities of urban conflict that underpin this destabilizing view of the normative public space.

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