La construcción social de los espacios cotidianos

Resumen

Space and everyday life are two terms that, either because they are familiar or because they are complex, are not usually clearly defined in the academic sphere. For its part, space, a polysemous concept that has been deconstructed ad nauseam (Lefebvre, 2013 [1974]), has been given the most diverse nicknames: public space, collective space, hybrid space, third space, virtual space, living spaces, lived spaces, among many others (Borja and Muxí, 2000; Cerasi, 1990; Paköz et al., 2022; Cianciotto, 2020; Oldenburg, 1989; Delgado Perera, 2015; Morant-Marco and Martín López, 2013; Nissen, 2008, Courgeau, 1988; Susino, 2003; De Pablos and Susino, 2010). For its part, the concept of everyday life has been systematically undervalued as a source of knowledge, and only recently has it been vindicated by various disciplines (Larrosa, 2006; Secchi, 2016); as has the concept of experience (Bericat, 2022), as valid analytical categories. The aim of this thesis is to recognise the potential of these concepts as forms of the social itself, for which a theoretical reflection and a compendium of case studies are carried out, employing both primary and secondary data sources and classical quantitative and qualitative data production and analysis techniques, as well as integrating analysis with machine learning applied to natural language processing. As a result, findings have been obtained on urban phenomena such as the privatisation of public space, the social construction of living spaces, and also on the changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its confinements in the social and individual relationship with their immediate environment. In doing so, it provides empirical evidence on the experience of everyday life in different contexts, and, theoretically, aims to provide its own definition of everyday spaces that goes beyond theoretical fragmentation.