Differences, inequalities and urban everyday life: paradigms for reading and reflection on the spatial dimension of social processes

• Grant number: 19/04385-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: June 01, 2019
• End date: January 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Maria Encarnação Beltrão Sposito
• Grantee: Alejandro Morcuende González
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 18/07701-8 - Socio-spatial fragmentation and Brazilian urbanization: scales, vectors, rhythms, forms and contents FragUrb, AP.TEM

Abstract

Spatial practices "shape our spaces of action" (SOJA, 1996, p. 74) in activities linked to habitat, work, leisure, consumption and circulation because, through them, we assign symbols to space, making them part of ourselves to the extent that we appropriate it, even though these practices do not always mean abrupt change or change in spatial substrates (CATALON, 2010).We wish to observe these practices in order to understand socio-spatial fragmentation as the process that, in the present period, encompasses multiple forms of differentiation and inequality which, in the city as a condition and expression of various processes, manifest themselves in a progressively more complex way.