Open AccessInterseccionalidad: recurso para la producción de espacios urbano-arquitectónicos inclusivos
Author(s) -
Contreras Castellanos Karina,
Lara Heyns Eugenio,
Hernández Rivero Edgar Fabián
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
tequio
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2594-0546
pISSN - 2594-0538
DOI - 10.53331/teq.v4i12.2441
Subject(s) - materiality (auditing) , intersectionality , sociology , privilege (computing) , context (archaeology) , harm , consciousness , feminism , embodied cognition , affect (linguistics) , gender studies , epistemology , aesthetics , political science , geography , law , philosophy , communication , archaeology
Recently, the concept of intersectionality has acquired bigger visibility because of the interest and alert that have awaken in our society a range of social rights fights and movements, among them, and in a remarkable way, feminism. However, their demands and the theories derived from the ideas of these groups do not seem to have passed through the consciousness, knowledge or practice of architects, urbanists, and others involved in the urban-architectural production in Mexico. Most actions that harm, force, discriminate or marginalize people occur in the built environment which, itself, is not neutral. On the contrary, through its materiality and inner dynamics, the built environment manifests -and gets incorporated into- the social processes of the context, perpetuating or modifying its constructs. Because of this, we consider it is fundamental to think about the links between the approaches generated by the ones that drive social change and the collective work related with the production of the built environment. The concept of intersectionality has a main role in this paper for what it makes evident: the privilege and domination that certain conditions have over others -as well as their possible intersections-, which can affect anyone at some point.