Spatial Configuration: Mobility, Inequality, and Power in a Neoliberal Context
The Case of National Northeast University Campus in Resistencia, Province of Chaco, Argentina
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https://doi.org/10.35305/23626097v12i22.519Keywords:
mobility, campus, space, exclusion, social controlAbstract
This study explores urban mobility in Latin America from an interdisciplinary perspective rooted in social sciences, urban studies, and critical geography. It seeks to move beyond infrastructure-focused approaches to understand mobility as a phenomenon that reproduces power relations and social inequalities. The aim is to deal with a critical analysis of the way in which the spatial design of the National Northeast University Campus in Resistencia, Province of Chaco, reinforces mechanisms of social exclusion and discipline. Drawing on the theoretical contributions of Michel Foucault and Paola Jirón, the study examines how a campus layout primarily designed for vehicular circulation creates spatial hierarchies that marginalize pedestrians and people with reduced mobility. This configuration is understood as a form of symbolic violence through which certain urban actors become invisible. In line with Foucault’s concept of disciplinary space, the campus is seen as a control device that naturalizes inequality. Finally, such dynamic is linked to broader effects of the neoliberal model promoting both privatization of public space and reliance on cars, thereby deepening urban fragmentation.
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