Abstract

PABON SUAREZ, Ingrid Carolina. Urban Space, Narratives of Contempt and "Social Cleansing" in Bogotá. Territ. [online]. 2017, n.36, pp.87-109. ISSN 0123-8418.  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/territorios/a.4836.

Abstract "Social cleansing" is a category widely used to refer to the act of killing people that are considered undesirable. Its perpetrators usually evoked it as an excuse to ensure the safety of a social group. I suggest that this practice becomes instrumental because it seeks to establish a particular kind of moral and social order; as well it is expressive because it reveals a hierarchical social structure and classification system that is supported by the belief that there are some individuals who are a source of danger, the most undesirable, and others, who are in danger. This ethnographic research, whose stage was the Zonal Planning Unit Patio Bonito, concludes that this violent action is mediated by discursive constructions in this case call narratives of contempt.

Keywords : Violence; social cleansing; narratives; contempt; Bogotá; Colombia.

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