O seriado Chaves e a questão urbana: exclusão, periferização e conflito de classes

Exclusão, Periferização e Conflito de Classes

Abstract

This text proposes to investigate the process of peripherization in the city of Mexico from the second half of the twentieth century, from the analysis of the TV series Chaves. There are two interpretations. In the first place, this process of slumming and peripherization was part of the urban and industrial expansion, in which the poorest, the workers, remained on the sidelines. Class struggle, real estate speculation, income concentration are some of the symptoms that have generated large masses of the excluded, who have concentrated in precarious and distant regions of urban and economic centers, even though they serve as labor to feed this system. Secondly, that exclusion and peripheralization can also occur in the social field, even if coexisting the excluded and privileged side by side or in the same space. The temporal cut, as pointed out above, covers the period of the second half of the twentieth century, with an emphasis on the 1970s.