Citation

López-López MV, Pastor-Durango MD, Giraldo-Giraldo CA, García-García HI. Salud Colect. 2014; 10(3): 397-406.

Vernacular Title

Delimitación de fronteras como estrategia de control social: el caso de la violencia homicida en Medellín, Colombia.

Affiliation

Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Universidad Nacional de Lanús)

DOI

10.1590/S1851-82652014000300009

PMID

25522107

Abstract

As part of a research study undertaken in the period 2003-2011 to understand situations of homicidal violence based in perceptions regarding the act of violence and the surrounding context, we reflect on the meaning of "invisible bourdaries" in the neighborhoods of Medellin (Colombia). Using a qualitative approach that combines documentary sources and interviews, the experiences of 8 participants are analyzed. In the primary results we can see how control over neighborhoods is exercised by different actors through bourdaries not visible to ordinary people. Nevertheless, around these lines people are recruited and controlled and strategies to illegally generate economic resources and to regulate the cultural and social activities of inhabitants are consolidated, thus affecting the social dynamics and imaginary of the neighborhood. In this way, the territories, friendships, and affects of young victims - who are not linked to illegal groups and/or do not have "information" - and of defenseless older adults are controlled.

Language: es