Critical extension and integrality for the approach of territorial corporal practices in the framework of the transformations of a neighborhood public space

Abstract

The article is the product of an investigation carried   out by the university team that makes up the   Comprehensive Training Space "Interdisciplinary, Territory and Collective Action" (University of the   Republic) in the Flor de Maroñas neighborhood   (Montevideo). The objective of the study was to   produce interdisciplinary knowledge that would   contribute to deepen the exercise of the right to the   city in what refers to its neighborhood public spaces, within the framework of the urban renewal processes   implemented by the Municipality of Montevideo,  through the construction of cultural complexes. The   transformations that have occurred in a neighborhood   public space related to the construction of a Cultural   Complex financed by the Municipality of Montevideo   and managed with the participation of neighbors,  neighborhood organizations and local institutional   actors are addressed. In coherence with a perspective   of critical extension and comprehensiveness, the   methodological strategy used was action-research, in   which the university team participates in the different   spaces that make up the process, contributing   knowledge and problematization from a partial and   situated position. From the results, some reflections   are placed that problematize the bodily practices that   take place in the Complex from a historical, territorial   and gender perspective, to contribute to urban studies   on a neighborhood scale, placing in tension the way in   which the bodies are educated in the city. A series of   questions are raised that operate as an orientation and   reflection guide on university practice.