Urban Heterotopia. Exclusion Spaces and Biopolitical View of Medellin in the 20th Century

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Hilderman Cardona Rodas
Juan David Cardona Arboleda

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The political and social networks seen in a city consist of a diversity that entails complexity spaces. On the one hand, the homogeneous, abstract, and geometric city; on the other hand, a poetic, narrated, and experienced city walked by human beings; two spaces in reciprocal coexistence (sociospatial spheres). This is the case of Medellin City1, a reflexive scenario of this text. Lives, experiences, and perceptions of individuals are seen in this city, duly framed within a biopolitical network of the urban space and market economy, which is reflected in press and filing images selected for a critical address of the city. Architectural models of a city show symbolic efficiency related to social/technological devices to move merchandise, bodies, territories, and space management practices. In this way, the text includes an analysis of the existence of power which should be thought beyond a legal context by spreading it to a set of manifestations about bodies comprising the constructed urban network. The power, instead of being a judicial marker, becomes operation and marking over bodies. Resistance and domination, as tension in complexity, trigger a number of experiences within the heterogeneity of inhabited places that imply urban heterotopias.

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Hilderman Cardona Rodas, Universidad de Medellín

Docente de tiempo completo e investigador del Departamento de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas de la Universidad de Medellín, editor de la revista Ciencias Sociales y Educación. Historiador y magíster en historia de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Medellín, doctor en Antropología, de la Universitat Rovira i Virgili de Tarragona (España). Autor de los libros Experiencias desnudas del orden. Cuerpos deformes y monstruosos (2012), Al otro lado del cuerpo. Estudios biopolíticos en América Latina (2014) y Oficio de historiador. Enfoques y prácticas (2014).

Juan David Cardona Arboleda

Auxiliar de investigación del proyecto 'Derecho a la ciudad, estudio geo-etnográfico sobre el impacto social de las iniciativas de desarrollo urbano en las ciudades de Bogotá y Medellín'. Abogado de la Universidad de Medellín.

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Cardona Rodas, H., & Cardona Arboleda, J. D. (2016). Urban Heterotopia. Exclusion Spaces and Biopolitical View of Medellin in the 20th Century. Ciencias Sociales Y Educación, 5(9), 81-104. https://doi.org/10.22395/csye.v5n9a4

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