Abstract

BARRAGAN RODRIGUEZ, Lucía. Everyday life practices of street young adults in Plaza Zarco (Mexico City). Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv [online]. 2010, vol.8, n.1, pp.411-437. ISSN 1692-715X.

This paper presents a brief description of everyday life practices of street young adults between 18 to 28 years old who live in Plaza Zarco in Mexico City. Without the necessary equipment or adjustment for their needs but with physical, organizational and cognitive resources this young people build tactics and strategies to go through solving their basic, biological, social and affective needs. They manage to articulate in the public space and with the group in which they are to replace house and family, institutions where they covered these needs. It is not tried to give account of public space appropriation, but of the "circumstantial appropriation" of those who inhabits Plaza Zarco.

Keywords : everyday life practices; street young adults; strategies; tactics; space; public space.

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