Abstract

TORRES RUIZ, Jacqueline; PARRA GONZALEZ, Claudia Valeria  and  GUTIERREZ RAMIREZ, Juan Camilo. Tensions in the configuration and reconfiguration of the mobilities and territorialities of street inhabitants in Bogota. Rev. colomb. soc. [online]. 2020, vol.43, n.2, pp.157-190.  Epub May 08, 2021. ISSN 0120-159X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcs.v43n2.82902.

The article analyzes the configuration and reconfiguration of mobilities and territorialities of street inhabitants in Bogota, amidst the tensions between the urban public -o space conceived by hegemonic knowledge/powers and built from the meanings, uses, and everyday experiences of the city. It proposes a two-stage reading of conceptual axes of the o research, namely street inhabitants, territoriality, mobility, and public space. The first one in context shows the panorama of the mobilities and territorialities configuration based on the tension between a growing capital city and a process of fragmentation and compared to street territorialities. This goes from a relatively open and free relationship with public space to an ambivalent where the "pots" become a space of degradation but at the same time, a place that represents security in the face of indifference, persecution and "social cleansing". The second stage identifies the forms of reconfiguration of mobilities and territorialities of street inhabitants, after the intervention of the Bronx, on May 28, 2016.

This research proposes a qualitative approach to identify the logic of the mobility of street inhabitants in Bogotá during these stages, implementing a strategy of information collection with techniques as the documentary review of previous research on urban public space and the historical development of this population group; interviews with street inhabitants in different locations of the city; interview with a street care services operator; interview with an academic expert; ethnographic observation and analysis of figures from the 2007 and 2017 street population censuses. The findings prove that, although mobility constitutes a survival strategy for the street inhabitant mediated by needs and economic activities, practices, and links with the territory and its peers, it also responds to a fragmentation process and discontinuity in the city that creates enclaves of informality and c conditions/limits such mobility. With this, transits and tensions between voluntary and involuntary mobility are identified.

Descriptores: Bogotá, mobilities, public policies, street inhabitants, territory.

Keywords : cartography; mobilities; public space; street inhabitants; territorialities.

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