Bodies, emotions and city(ies) in Latin American(1 st decade of the XXI century.)

Practices, smells, shapes and chromaticity update the itineraries of senses, fate and intensity of emotions that the city arouses, soothe or silence in the bodies that inhabit it. Assuming the existing dialectical relationship between the city (as materialities and images) and the senses (stimulated inside and by the bodies that inhabit it), the urban polysemy set up its base in relations of domination that shape the city in a given time-space.

Conceived as part of an exercise of reflexivity from Latin America city(ies) this session aims to bring some clues for the analysis of this locus, which in the fact of living (it) emerges as a whole, but that under the hiatus that configures it can only be apprehended and experienced in a fragmented way in different and unequal experiences of inhabiting, that is, as a place felt through the body in constant inter-subjective co-constitution.

From this perspective, feeling-in-body-with-other-bodies is the condition of possibility of the social interactions within the framework of material conditions of existence, emerging as the key analytical approach to the mechanisms and effects of domination that mark spaces and experiences 'with' and 'in' the neo-colonial city, both the bodies that travel around it with full enjoyment of their senses and those who just survive at its edges-limits.

Thus, the purpose of this session is to analyze the policies of bodies and emotions in the latin-americans cities that produce processes of imprisonment, segregation and territorial exclusion, observable from the corporeality of those for whom the 'access' to it (working, studying, organizing themselves, eating, etc.). has become a daily battle. Conversely, there are those others in which the fantasy of a 'neat and beautiful' city to everyone is established at the set of patterns that govern the real and mental walls through which a desirable or undesirable interaction develops a classist space-corporal geometry of its inhabitants.