The shelter that wasnt there: On the politics of coordinating multiple urban assemblages in Santiago

The concept of assemblages has gained an important degree of momentum in urban studies claiming to offer a new ontology for understanding cities as emergent and fluid concatenations of multiple elements. Such a conception, however, has also been criticised in relation to its supposed failure to deal effectively with the issue of power and inequality in urban dynamics. This paper contributes to this on-going discussion by exploring in detail the way in which power was embedded in one particular case: a bus stop shelter located in front of the Biblioteca Nacional in Santiago, Chile. In so doing, it analyses the controversy arising when two large and complex urban assemblages share component/s that each of them claims as exclusive. This situation made necessary practices of co-ordination in which a hierarchy was established between the competing assemblages, involving important transformations in some of its components

Información de Publicación

Autores:

Sebastián Ureta

Institución: Universidad Alberto Hurtado
Facultad: Ciencias Sociales
Unidad: Sociología

Revista:

Urban studies

Año:

2014

Mes:

Diciembre

Número:

2

Páginas:

231-256

Url de Publicación:

http://usj.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/06/03/0042098013489747.