Abstract

RODRIGUEZ-MANCILLA, Marcelo  and  GRONDONA-OPAZO, Gino. Urban struggles in popular neighborhoods of the city of Quito: territoriality and historicity from the voices of its protagonists. Psicol. Conoc. Soc. [online]. 2018, vol.8, n.1, pp.102-123.  Epub June 01, 2020. ISSN 1688-7026.  https://doi.org/10.26864/pcs.v8.n1.6.

In the psychosocial literature developed in Latin America, a reflexive debate has been taking place both inward and outward, around the conceptual tensions, meanings and institutionalized forms of community praxis, which have been supported by Community Social Psychology (PSC) at the light of contemporary social problems. The present study, based on this framework, sought to understand the popular struggles for-the-place, based on the psychosocial factors that mediate the construction of territoriality and historicity, in the social production of the popular habitat in the urban periphery of Quito. For this, 33 qualitative interviews were applied to social leaders, women and men of 30 popular neighborhoods. Through this exploratory approach to the process of popular struggle, we managed to identify certain conceptual limitations of the category of "community" widely used in PSC. At the same time, we reflect on the potential extension of the comprehensive frameworks of the categories: historicity and territoriality. We conclude that there is an important theoretical deficit in the discipline, which is constructed mainly from descriptive categories tending to the homogenization of the phenomena. This supposes the challenge of revitalizing the corpus of existing knowledge in the region, and capturing the diversity and complexity of forms of social and territorial appropriation on a neighborhood scale.

Keywords : Community social psychology; Popular habitat; Historicity; Territoriality.

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