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Bitácora Urbano Territorial
Print version ISSN 0124-7913On-line version ISSN 2027-145X
Abstract
BANDA, Consuelo and CONCHA, Paz. Leisure and socio-spatial appropriation from a feminist perspective: the case of Cerro Cordillera, Valparaíso. Bitácora Urbano Territorial [online]. 2022, vol.32, n.1, pp.233-246. Epub July 11, 2022. ISSN 0124-7913. https://doi.org/10.15446/bitacora.v32n1.96007.
This article looks at the ways in which leisure practices create appropriation of urban space in the case of women from Cerro Cordillera in Valparaíso, Chile. Using an ethnographic approach, we focus on the everyday life of a group of women to find three types of socio spatial leisure practices: communitarian, personal and collective. The first type corresponds to women participation and work in the recovery of unused space in the city like empty sites, ravines and ran down places that are being used as public space in the neighbourhood. The second type is personal practices that explore more intimate relationships between leisure activities and the city, as for example, walking or using streets as viewpoints. Finally, collective practices are those in which women create networks of friendship and care through leisure. The article analyses the social production of public space by looking at how the personal and communitarian spheres are linked through leisure and it claims for the importance of women practices and strategies of spatial appropriation.
Keywords : urban space; leisure; feminism; everyday life; community.