The social construction of inhabiting. The reproduction of the Statu quo

Authors

  • María Alejandra Núñez Villalobos The College of Mexico, Mexico.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33064/artificio220202526

Keywords:

habitus, residential choice, residence mobility, culture

Abstract

Urban access has been broadly discussed. The dialogue centers on how individuals are limited mainly because of economic conditions that impact heavily on families with lower income.

However, the less fortunate are even more restricted to social structures. In other words, the inequity conditions exist not only in an uneven income distribution but also in what has been built socially, culturally, and historically as consumption practices.

The objective of this article is to show that hosing choice is not only the result of disbursement of economic resources available, but also that the consumption of housing is also the result of what has been socially and culturally built as ways of living in each of the families and social fields.

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Author Biography

María Alejandra Núñez Villalobos, The College of Mexico, Mexico.

Architect by the University of Guadalajara (1998), Master in Urbanism and Development by the same university (2011) and PhD in Urban and Environmental Studies by the Colegio de México, she has 8 years of experience in municipal public administration in the area of public works, construction licenses and urban planning. She participated as Research Assistant in the Conacyt funded projects "Formal urban land supply for housing. Metropolitan area of Guadalajara 1988-2006" and "Renovation of consolidated human settlements. In search of a new generation of public policies". He has been a speaker at national and international conferences on housing, residential mobility and public housing policy.

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Published

2020-03-13

How to Cite

Núñez Villalobos, M. A. (2020). The social construction of inhabiting. The reproduction of the Statu quo. Artificio, (2), 26–37. https://doi.org/10.33064/artificio220202526

Issue

No. 2 (2020)

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