Abstract

CARRION, Fernando  and  PINTO, Juan Pablo. Production and spatial organization of old and 'new' inequalities in Quito. Andamios [online]. 2019, vol.16, n.39, pp.101-125. ISSN 2594-1917.  https://doi.org/10.29092/uacm.v16i39.676.

This research studies the spatial production and organization of different forms of inequalities in Quito, Ecuador. It explains how, during the XX and XXI centuries, different processes of urbanization in the city have produced new geographies of socio-spatial segregation. It also examines other forms of inequalities related to the repeated discrimination against migrants, LGBTI groups, and women, emphasizing its symbolic (stigma) and territorial dimensions. It argues that the research on urban inequalities should articulate the analysis of different dimensions, namely, a structural and a multi-scalar, a synchronic and a diachronic, a material and a symbolic, all capable of articulating what is old and what is new, in order to highlight the fact that the city, as a palimpsest, becomes a space in which, again and again, multiple inequalities are spatially organized and reproduced, although not in the same manner.

Keywords : Quito; segregation; inequalities; discrimination.

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