Abstract

QUICENO TORO, Natalia  and  SANIN NARANJO, Paula. Estigmas territoriales y distinciones sociales: Configuraciones espaciales en la ciudad de MedellínTerritorial Stigmas and Social Differences: Spatial Configurations in Medellin City. anagramas rumbos sentidos comun. [online]. 2009, vol.7, n.14, pp.115-132. ISSN 1692-2522.

This article shows the results of a research called: ''Narrations of Space and Social Construction of ''what is popular'' in Medelllin,'' conducted in year 2005 by the Research Group ''Culture, Violence, and Territory'' of Universidad de Antioquia INER (Instituto de Estudios Regionales). Social differences are identified in the way how we inhabit the city, in places chosen and excluded in our daily life, in images and stigmas we create about ''the others'' who live in those places, and in the places themselves. In Medellín, socioeconomic segregation is an evident fact in both geography and urban planning. Nonetheless, such segregation is also evident on the field of images and practices regarding the way how we inhabit the city; in this case, the way how a group of youngsters from different social classes inhabit Medellín. This paper is an approach to the construction of stereotypes and stigmas about ''the other'' and his space, and the way how ''geography of otherness'' is built in the city.

Keywords : Social differences; stereotypes; stigmas; segregation; Medellin.

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