Les trottoirs comme ordre local hybride. Les pratiques et les interactions sociales des femmes de deux quartiers de Mexico

Abstract

To participate in the debate which questions the dichotomy between public space and private space inherited from the 19th century, the concept of hybrid urban order is proposed. The way in which women inhabit the sidewalks of neighborhoods, a local public space, and hybridize the different spheres of urban, private, “parochial” and public social life, put forward by Lofland, serves to question this dichotomy. In Mexico City, the social practices of women that take place on the sidewalks of the neighborhoods where they live are in fact inscribed in the sexual division of labor. But women play a role in the hybridization of the different orders and in the creation of a local order. However, the legitimacy of their presence on the sidewalk space is not the same depending on whether it is a working-class neighborhood or a gentrified middle-class neighborhood.

Keywords

• women
• city
• public space
• urban order
• dwelling