The horizontal city. Social struggle and collective memory on the fringes of Barcelona

• Autores: Stefano Portelli
• Localización: Revista d'etnologia de Catalunya, ISSN 1132-6581, Nº. 40, 2015, págs. 119-125
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper describes the findings and main issues addressed by the �Social Struggle and Collective Memory in Low Price Housing in Barcelona� research and analysis project commissioned in 2009 by the Associació de Veïns Avis del Barri de Bon Pastor and carried out by an interdisciplinary team of historians, anthropologists and architects linked to the Catalan Institute of Anthropology which also included people living in the low price housing. The gradual demolition of most of these neighborhoods on the outskirts of Barcelona shows the rollout of cultural dynamics that build a �city image� which is incompatible with some of its population sectors. In this context, anthropological research has to face great challenges but can also do some important work: documenting social transformations that have been linked to the modification of urban space and the role in this process of the selective reconfiguration of historical memory, especially that memory of struggle and resistance which is almost inseparable from the identity of these neighborhoods