Communication and subjectivity in the ethnographies of dwelling:

a perspective from urban and territorial cultural studies

Abstract

This article presents a conceptual proposal focused on the ethnographies of dwelling and located in the field of urban and territorial cultural studies, carried out by our transdisciplinary research team and its academic development program. The introduction discusses the general topics and the specific focus proposed for its approach. Next, the various dimensions that make up the problem are displayed. In the first place, the conception of dwelling at the hearth of the subjectivity, of the territory as a weave and of mediations as a universe of practices. Next, the logic of composition of urban and territorial assemblies, with its epistemological implications on the links between subjectivities and techno-social actants. And thirdly, the practices of creation and resistance, particularly in the dynamics of the new social movements, their most significant forms of territorialization in the face of the contemporary political challenges involved in the advance of existential precariousness. We conclude with general considerations about the exploration horizon implied in our perspective.