| Titre | ¡ Cada uno tiene la intención de construir un muro ! | |
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| Auteur | Sven Pötting | |
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Revue | Amerika |
| Numéro | No 9, 2013 Villes américaines du XXIème siècle : réalités et représentations sociales, culturelles et linguistiques | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Thématique |
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| Résumé anglais |
Gated communities are an idealized housing model that has spread throughout contemporary capitalist cities. They have been the subject of a large number of social studies and some artistic representations. In his study Liquid Times Zygmunt Bauman, one oft he world's leading sociologists analyses the negative consequences of globalisation. The increasing fear of crime on a global scale can be seen as a response to social inequalities, social polarisation, the undermining of national and local institution and the fragmentation of cities, which has to a large extent been caused by neoliberalism. Strategies are developed by the gobal elite to counter the unstable, risky and dangerous world : they are putting up barriers like cameras, fences, walls and gates, to separate themselves from ‘dangerous others'. There are a few artistic representations that are taking the residential model of the gated community - created as a response to the (assumed) dangers of city living - as a background for their stories. This article analises how the image of the ‘dangerous other' and the ‘mixophobia', described by Zygmunt Bauman and the argentine sociologist Maristella Svampa, is represented in novels like Claudia Piñeiro's Las viudas de los jueves and in films like Una semana solos (Celina Murga) and shows also the way the culture of difference and separatism is critized in these artistic representations. Source : Éditeur (via OpenEdition Journals) |
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| Article en ligne | http://amerika.revues.org/4391 |
