El Confital (Gran Canaria): una prospección etnográfica

Abstract

This paper belongs to an ongoing investigation about social movements in Canary Islands. From a politic and relational approach this line researches in the re-colocating process of marginal groups in the city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. This process is derivated from speculated actions related to macrosocial elements as turism. Thus, this paper analyzes power relations articulating social representations with discurses and practices of the group. Also, the diacronic perspective allows to re-construct social trajectories from subjects and the quarter like an active social member in social movilization process. This is an ethographic research that implements combined qualitative techniques guided interviews and participant observation

Keywords

• Eviction
• Social alienation
• City
• Turism
• Economy
• Social movement