Identity-Based Dynamics and Public Spaces
Manuel Delgado questions whether anyone can be described as an “immigrant” in the city. Urban centers are precisely characterized for being heterogeneous and unstable spaces, in which nobody is a foreigner since, in the city, all are in a state of transit. Thecity is thus a space of interculturality...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)
1998-12-01
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| Series: | Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals |
| Online Access: | http://www.cidob.org/es/content/download/5483/54027/file/43-44delgado.pdf |
| Summary: | Manuel Delgado questions whether anyone can be described as an “immigrant” in the city. Urban centers are precisely characterized for being heterogeneous and unstable spaces, in which nobody is a foreigner since, in the city, all are in a state of transit. Thecity is thus a space of interculturality, of a generalized cultural hybridization in which, even as the fear of excessive hybridization might appear to reinforce identities, identities remain volatile. Indeed, identity is a relational phenomenon; and, in spite of its being indispensable, identity is more a matter of form than of content. To put a stop to the tendencies of intolerance and exclusion a reality should have to be created out of two apparent antagonisms: the right to be different and the right to be equal. |
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| ISSN: | 1133-6595 2013-035X |