O outro lado da cidade: dinâmicas de apropriação de espaços residenciais periféricos

Abstract

This article is based on the communication that took place at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of University of Porto from October 11 to 13, at the International Conference Philosophy of the City 2017, and was included in the panel entitled «The other side of the city: dynamics of appropriation of peripheral residential spaces». Based on a sociological understanding, the urban social tissue is based on the social constructions that underlie it. Social neighbourhoods located in peripheral areas of the cities are physical and social spaces characterized by manifestations of poverty and social exclusion. In these spaces are developed ways of life with specific and differentiated configurations compared to dominant society. It is based on the fact that social exclusion is a dynamic and multidimensional process relationally constituted as the source of identity tensions in space. The contribution to this article is based on the approach of the appropriation processes in peripheral social neighbourhoods located in Darque, Viana do Castelo, focusing on research on influences underlying the dynamics of social and ethnic identities that are agglomerated in these relational social spaces.