Este artículo presenta un análisis sobre las dinámicas sociales y territoriales que generan los proyectos residenciales de conjunto cerrado o condominio en las áreas en las que se construyen, fenómeno analizado como parte de procesos globales de precarización y desigualdad social resultado de dinámicas de gentrificación rururbana. De este modo, el trabajo etnográfico realizado en la vereda de La Florida (Manizales-Villamaría, Colombia), caracterizada por la presencia de múltiples complejos residenciales de este tipo, sirve para realizar un análisis que busca comprender el papel fundamental que juega un discurso construido sobre los ideales de la tierra y la naturaleza en el éxito de estos proyectos inmobiliarios. Por último, se reflexiona sobre el contraste entre el carácter urbano del estilo de vida de estos conjuntos cerrados y los ideales de vida en el campo a los que apelan.
This article analyzes the production of memory on a neighborhood scale, comparing the different logics that shape narratives about the past in the historic center and a peripheral area of the city of Valencia (Spain). We analyze the uses of the past developed by three kinds of actors: local institutions, social movements, and residents. This line of research shows that administrators boost aestheticized memories oriented towards commodification and tourist promotion in the historic center and towards an unconflicted representation of interculturality in the periphery. These hegemonic narratives are being reproduced, appropriated, and negotiated by social movements and local residents, who replicate some elements of the official narratives while, at the same time, resignifying other parts and claiming neglected and erased memories. Urban memories function, therefore, as a political arena for the imposition and negotiation of different dynamics and transformations experienced at the local level.
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