The city from the point of view of children: social inequalities in representing and using urban public spaces

Inês Barbosa; Lígia Ferro; João Teixeira Lopes; Eunice Castro Seixas

doi:10.5565/rev/athenea.3013

La ciudad desde el punto de vista de los niños: desigualdades sociales en la representación y el uso de los espacios públicos urbanos

Autores/as

Inês Barbosa Universidade do Porto https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7809-8410
Lígia Ferro Universidade do Porto https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2704-4308
João Teixeira Lopes Universidade do Porto https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6891-7411
Eunice Castro Seixas Universidade de Lisboa https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5356-6014

Resumen

Este artículo se ha elaborado en el marco del proyecto de investigación CRiCity: "Los niños y su derecho a la ciudad: Abordando la desigualdad urbana a través del diseño participativo de ciudades amigas de la infancia" desarrollado en Lisboa y Oporto y financiado por la Fundación Portuguesa para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FCT) a través de fondos nacionales (PTDC/SOC-SOC/30415/2017). Aquí nos centramos en dos estudios de caso desarrollados en Oporto. Nuestro objetivo es presentar algunas de las conclusiones de los grupos focales y de las actividades de dibujo desarrolladas con niños en dos instituciones. Durante esta investigación, se evidenció que los niños de clases medias y altas están más sometidos a procesos de institucionalización, domesticación e hiperprotección que los de clases sociales populares. Asimismo, concluimos que los fenómenos de insularización y especialización contribuyen para el agravamiento de las restricciones en los espacios públicos al producir formas de segregación socioespacial que dependen no sólo de la edad, sino también de la clase y el estatus social.

Palabras clave

Niños, Ciudad, Desigualdades, Clases Sociales

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Biografía del autor/a

Lígia Ferro, Universidade do Porto

Lígia Ferro completed her graduation studies at the Faculty of Arts - University of Porto, receiving the Eng. António de Almeida / UP Award for the best student graduating in Sociology in 2004. She received her Ph.D. from the University Institute of Lisbon, ISCTE-IUL (advisors: Professor António Firmino da Costa and Professor Joan Pujadas - URV). She was a visiting scholar at several universities in Europe, the United States of America and Brazil. Currently she is assistant professor in the Sociology Department, Faculty of Arts - University of Porto. She conducted research with a FCT post-doc grant in the Institute of Sociology, UP and in the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, CIES-IUL. She has carried out fieldwork in Porto, Lisbon, Barcelona, Paris, New York, Boston and Rio de Janeiro. Lígia Ferro is vice-president of the European Sociological Association (elected in August, 2019), was the ESA Research Network 37 - Urban Sociology coordinator (2015-2017) and is a member of the board of the European Network of Observatories in the Fields of Arts and Cultural Education - UNESCO (since September, 2017). She was a member of the Deontology Council of the Portuguese Sociological Association from 2012 to 2016. In 2016, she was elected as a member of the directive committee of the same association. Her research has been funded mainly by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundação Luso-Americana, European Commission and High Commission for Migrations. She currently acts as an advisor and co-advisor of Master and Ph.D. theses in social sciences. She is the author and editor of several publications, including the book "Moving Cities: Contested Views on Urban Life" (2018, Springer) and the article "Jump Lisbon! Notes from an Ethnography of Urban Flows" (2015, Portuguese Journal of Social Science). She is also the editor of the Book Series ENO Yearbooks (Springer). Lígia Ferro’s research develops the ethnographic and other mixed methods approaches. Lately she has been working on cultural practices, arts education, migration, socio-professional integration and action research, especially in urban contexts.