Angela Giglia

Nuevas centralidades y prácticas de consumo en la Ciudad de México: del microcomercio al hipermercado

This paper addresses the phenomenon of the simultaneous and explosive expansion since the late eighties all over Mexico City metropolitan space, of the globalized retail chains and the street informal micro commerce. The processes linked to this phenomenon are explored by examining evidences regarding metropolitan population consumption practices, observed in a sample of neighbourhoods areas concerning a wide spectrum of urban environments and socio-spatial strata co-existing in the metropolitan territory. The analysis shows, on one hand, a transformation of consumption practices that, as it was expected, are differentiated according to residential location and its corresponding urban environment, individual and household socio-economic level, and alternative forms of mobility (private car – public transport). But, on the other hand, that these practices are also shaped by a specific economy of mobility and by specific compatibilities between globalized consumption forms -which tend to incorporate, though under different modalities, all social classes-, and the role played by the informal micro commerce.

Pierre Bourdieu y la perspectiva reflexiva en las ciencias sociales

El articulo examina los escritos de Bourdieu en donde el tema de la reflexividad se encuentra mas presente y donde mas se fusiona con los intereses y las preocupaciones que son propias de la antropologia y su afan por asumir como objeto el propio trabajo antropologico. En particular El oficio del sociologo, El campo cientifico (1968), y el ultimo curso al College de France, significativamente titulado Science de la science et reflexivite. El objetivo es evidenciar la utilidad de la perspectiva reflexiva propuesta por Bourdieu para promover una antropologia consciente de su modus operandi y capaz de valorar su propia posicion dentro de las ciencias sociales y del campo academico en general