Proceso de construcción territorial del Barrio Flores Oeste

Abstract

The work seeks to know the origins of the historical process of territorial construction of the settlement "Barrio Flores Oeste", located in the foothills of the city of Mendoza, from interviews, systematization and documentation analysis of primary and secondary sources, to describe and analyze how the State, from the construction of a dominant order, constructs territorial inequalities in the city including some and excluding others. In this case, from the start-up of the work of the University Campus begins the conflict for the eviction of the neighborhood and the step to the visibility of "the invisibilized of the West." The peculiarity of the same resides in the extensive temporality of the occupation / appropriation of the territory and the multiple spatial reconfigurations and territorial resistances, taking into account their condition of "excluded". The theoretical perspective of "production of space" by Henri Lefebvre, the "right to the city" of David Harvey and "space justice" of Edward Soja help us unveil the inequitable distribution of resources in space that produce tensions between the State , the market and the inhabitants producing (in) space justice.