La Rambla de Barcelona: territory in dispute Street vendors and the struggle for the city
La Rambla, one of the most famous streets in the world, is a pedestrian street in the heart of historic Barcelona. It’s trace separates Ciutat Vella district in two Gótico and Raval. Those neigbourhoods stand side by side as distant in social origin as near at destination: the merchandise city. In L...
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| description | La Rambla, one of the most famous streets in the world, is a pedestrian street in the heart of historic Barcelona. It’s trace separates Ciutat Vella district in two Gótico and Raval. Those neigbourhoods stand side by side as distant in social origin as near at destination: the merchandise city. In La Rambla vices and virtues of both converge. On one hand the Gothic, theme park of Catalan Middleages. It’s a kind of simulacrum created almost ex-profeso throughout the twentieth century to add monumentality to this Mediterranean city, but also to create a Catalan identity and a narrative based on architecture. It must be one of the most photographed neighborhoods in the world. On the other hand, Raval. The urban black beast, whose original name was “El Chino”. Traditional hiding place in the center of the city with everything that bourgeoisie does not want to see: whores, pimps, junkies, immigrants, poverty. Always threatened by processes of social cleansing and in recent years, by gentrification. Like pincers, in La Rambla turistification and social cleansing come together, creating a breeding ground, paradoxical and explosive, which has made this space the central place of the conflict between various groups of street workers and the Barcelona City Council. Street artists, musicians, street beer vendors, human statues, but above all “manteros”, which is the subject that occupies us in this article, have been persecuted, blackmailed, co-opted, with the ultimate goal of expelling them out of the streets or at less hide them. African migrants, mostly Senegalese, those street vendors have organized themselves politically into a “sui generis” union as a way to make their situation visible and defend their rights. This exploratory work studies the act of “putting” a blanket on the ground as a particular type of material culture that crisscrosses objects, urban infrastructures, symbols, forms of sociability and political organization “at the street level” |
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| spelling | repositorio.uan.edu.co-123456789-56332024-10-09T22:54:59Z La Rambla de Barcelona: territory in dispute Street vendors and the struggle for the city La Rambla de Barcelona: territorio en disputa Los vendedores ambulantes y la lucha por la ciudad Espinosa Zepeda, Horacio La Rambla, one of the most famous streets in the world, is a pedestrian street in the heart of historic Barcelona. It’s trace separates Ciutat Vella district in two Gótico and Raval. Those neigbourhoods stand side by side as distant in social origin as near at destination: the merchandise city. In La Rambla vices and virtues of both converge. On one hand the Gothic, theme park of Catalan Middleages. It’s a kind of simulacrum created almost ex-profeso throughout the twentieth century to add monumentality to this Mediterranean city, but also to create a Catalan identity and a narrative based on architecture. It must be one of the most photographed neighborhoods in the world. On the other hand, Raval. The urban black beast, whose original name was “El Chino”. Traditional hiding place in the center of the city with everything that bourgeoisie does not want to see: whores, pimps, junkies, immigrants, poverty. Always threatened by processes of social cleansing and in recent years, by gentrification. Like pincers, in La Rambla turistification and social cleansing come together, creating a breeding ground, paradoxical and explosive, which has made this space the central place of the conflict between various groups of street workers and the Barcelona City Council. Street artists, musicians, street beer vendors, human statues, but above all “manteros”, which is the subject that occupies us in this article, have been persecuted, blackmailed, co-opted, with the ultimate goal of expelling them out of the streets or at less hide them. African migrants, mostly Senegalese, those street vendors have organized themselves politically into a “sui generis” union as a way to make their situation visible and defend their rights. This exploratory work studies the act of “putting” a blanket on the ground as a particular type of material culture that crisscrosses objects, urban infrastructures, symbols, forms of sociability and political organization “at the street level” La Rambla, una de las calles más famosas del mundo, es una vía peatonal en el corazón de la Barcelona histórica. Su trazo parte la Ciutat Vella en dos barrios, El Gótico y El Raval, tan distantes en origen social como cercanos en destino: la ciudad mercancía. En La Rambla confluyen los vicios y virtudes de ambos barrios. Por un lado el Gótico, parque temático del Medioevo catalán. Barrio de postín creado casi ex-profeso a lo largo del Siglo XX para otorgarle monumentalidad a esta ciudad del Mediterráneo, pero también para crear una identidad y una narrativa catalana en base a la arquitectura. Debe ser uno de los barrios más fotografiados del mundo. Por otro lado, el Raval. La bestia negra cuyo nombre original era “El chino”. Tradicional escondite en el centro de la ciudad de todo lo que la burguesía no quiere ni ver: putas, chulos, yonkis, inmigrantes, pobreza. Desde siempre amenazado por procesos de limpieza social y en los últimos años, por la gentrificación. Como una tenaza, en La Rambla confluyen turistificación y limpieza social, creando un caldo de cultivo, paradójico y explosivo, que ha hecho de este espacio el lugar central del conflicto entre diversos colectivos de trabajadores callejeros y el Ayuntamiento de Barcelona. Artistas callejeros, músicos, vendedores de cerveza, estatuas humanas, pero sobre todo “manteros”, que es el tema que nos ocupa en este artículo, han sido perseguidos, chantajeados, cooptados, con el objetivo último de que dejen la calle o que al menos, se oculten y no le hagan “mala fama” a la perla del Mediterráneo. Migrantes africanos, senegaleses en su mayoría, los ambulantes se han organizado políticamente en un sindicato “sui generis” como una manera de hacer visible su situación y defender sus derechos. Este trabajo de carácter exploratorio estudia el acto de “poner” una manta en el suelo como un tipo particular de cultura material que entrecruza objetos, infraestructuras urbanas, símbolos, formas de sociabilidad y organización política “a nivel de calle”. 2021-11-10T01:00:36Z 2021-11-10T01:00:36Z 2019-07-24 Artículo revisado por pares info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85 http://revistas.uan.edu.co/index.php/nodo/article/view/163 10.54104/nodo.v13n26.163 http://repositorio.uan.edu.co/handle/123456789/5633 spa http://revistas.uan.edu.co/index.php/nodo/article/view/163/132 Acceso abierto Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 application/pdf Universidad Antonio Nariño 2346-092X 1909-3888 10.54104/nodo.v13n26 REVISTA NODO; Vol. 13 Núm. 26 (2019); 61 - 77 |
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