Mónica Marión Cataño O.
Recognition in the Communication Processes of Diverse Young the Experience of Living in a Park in the City of Cali.
Abstract
Artisan Park La Loma de la Cruz, is a park located in a suburb of the city of Cali, a place where different groups converge youth from youth cultures. The park is a place for meeting, socializing,
communication practices through which young people interact and build relationships. The park
is set up as a stage of “coexistence” in which rockers, punks, emos, skaters and members of the
LGBTI community stay together and share the same dwelling place (Figure 1). In the worlds of life of these young people, the words in different languages are a part of his being and his feelings, hence the affectations of joy and sadness, as defined by Spinoza (1980)1, are a way of weaving links and establish relationships communication. It is also possible to identify forms of recognition, Honneth’s way, recognition of love and solidarity2. These forms of recognition collide when young people, relate to the adult world, in the park, are made by artisans, police and neighbors.
From the adult world, the form of contempt is evident in the rejection of the young by their expressions, especially those with expressing his affectations manifest. If young people recognize the existence of other people, as well as their own differences in the way they think, if they recognize the action in their own inter-subjective relationships and in the same way they construct a “we”, we would be spectators of new ways of being together; of ethical and political linking which go through new ways of living together and in which the sense and the shared meaning of life are negotiated that show a way of understanding in communication.
ARTÍCULOS
Abstract
This article presents a research done with young people in the city of Cali-
Colombia and investigates their ways of being together, their forms of recognition
and their intersubjectives relationships that underlie the experience of
inhabiting a certain park. The affective turn of cultural studies and Spinoza’s
affective theory are those that illuminate the work that corresponds to a comprehensive
study with an ethnographic approach and takes up the narratives
of young people to describe the topophilia or room experience. The main results
of the research point to the affective communities as the new forms of
grouping of young people, the language of affection, the mixing of expressive
languages with those that weave their communicative ties and perform their
practices of resistance in defense of place, which is not only a place to be but is
constituted instead of being.