Gordian knot: habitats and violence. Puebla, México

Abstract

The inhabitat-violence relationship, captures the heartbreaking reality of our current society. The constitution of places, inhabitat, territories has been crossed by multiple violence and diverse exclusions throughout the civilizational process. In the current conditions of the neoliberal model, the search for profit tied to instrumental values such as competitiveness and individuality, continues in an iron way to configure, disfigure and reconfigure the territories, the inhabitat, of the majority of the population, particularly of rural populations and indigenous. The objective pursued is to reflect about the symbiosis that exists between the inhabitat and the violence in our current societie. To deploy concrete analyzes, we consider that a first step is to carry out a reflection exercise about the concepts involved: inhabitat and violence, to advance in the unraveling, through a reflective and confrontational process, with the concrete facts that violence assumes in Mexico and Puebla in diverse spatialities and varied dimensions of violence; the emphasis will be on poverty, public space and gender violence.