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Senses of dwelling from families residing in a gated community in Gran Córdoba, Argentina

Abstract

The article describes and analyzes the meanings of living in families living in a gated community in the city of Río Ceballos, in the province of Córdoba (Argentina), within the framework of the political and economic transformations of the last twenty years. With this purpose, we take up an ethnographic work carried out to account for the diversity of practices and meanings that the inhabitants display and build in and on the place where they live. In this way, we analyze the ways in which families, through the meanings they give to their practices (around the "neighborhood", "nature" and "security") articulate various forms of sociability, distinctions and belongings social. The article shows the importance of understanding these and other related issues, since it allows us to shed light, in an exploratory way, on the practices and representations that the inhabitants display in the use and appropriation of the environment. Likewise, it brings us closer to the knowledge of the socio-territorial patterns that regulate the occupation of this portion of the Cordoba suburban space.