TITLE:
Urban Dispositions of Violences. A Brief Panorama at Socio-Spatial Logics of Violence at Latin American City
AUTHORS:
Emiliano Duering Cufré
KEYWORDS:
Daily Life, Legitimation of Segregation, Dispositions, Public Spaces, Violence
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.7 No.12,
December
26,
2019
ABSTRACT: Nowadays, when all the forms of violence have become something normal and
they are part of our everyday life, mainly for the so-called developing
countries, it is essential to inquire about everyday beliefs and practices, which
enable coercive links or their invisibility. Dispositions are intellectual
mechanisms that define trends of action for individuals in a given context and
situation; they are based mainly on beliefs and the characteristics of the
socio-spatial context. This analysis discusses the question: what are dispositions that
legitimize and promote the segregated city? Our thinking is based on a review
of several studies, and empirical research on the peripheral and central public
spaces in large cities, especially some recent research on violence in the
outskirts of Mexico City. In other words, we intend to examine it from the
point of view of the groups that suffer most from the violence. But mainly it
is about proposing an examination of our preferences and desires to inhabit
cities in search of the mechanisms that protect us from discomfort, but which,
at the same time, tend to harbour the seeds of human violence.