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Giardini Govi is our spot! When parkour meets Genoa
Autor
Benasso
2015
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Modern Italy
Tipo de publicación
Artículo de revista
Idioma
Inglés
Palabras clave
parkour, Genoa, ethnoscape, augmented reality, disciplinary gaze
Resumen
This article focuses on the experience of a group of traceurs (people practising parkour) in the urban context of Genoa. It describes a public area of the town – the ‘spot’ most frequently used for training – from the specific point of view of the traceurs. Genoa is made up of different and relatively autonomous public spaces with specific and cultural characters, but parkour originates from the attempt to disrupt and reconfigure the city's institutional framework. Genoese traceurs share some of their orientation with other parkour groups in Europe and North America: they are attempting to define new ways of moving and new meanings for urban spaces and to expand the standard definition of a citizen. However, in the urban environment of Genoa, traceurs have to face diverse forms of opposition to their attempts to define their own pathways through the everyday flow of people, and in the disciplinary gaze of other citizens.
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Parkour y ciudadanía; prácticas corporales alternativas en la ciudad
Autor
Certuche & Cortes
2015
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5º Coloquio Internacional de la Educación Corporal
Tipo de publicación
Publicación en congreso
Idioma
Español
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Parkour, Práctica corporal, Ciudadanía, Subjetividad.
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Bogotá, se erige como el escenario que a nivel nacional convoca a todos y todas, es el territorio que acoge la multiculturalidad y sus múltiples significaciones. Tal diversidad de significados condensada en un mismo escenario, invita a su integración, complementación, confrontación u oposición, pero sobre todo al ejercicio ciudadano que da lugar a la aparición de nuevas formas de representar, vivir y comprender dichos significados. Así entonces, nos preguntamos ¿Cuáles son los significados atribuidos por sus practicantes al Parkour, como practica corporal al interior del perímetro urbano de Bogotá? El propósito fundamental planteado fue hacer visibles los modos específicos de conocer, significar, relacionarse entre sujetos y con los espacios de la ciudad a partir de esta práctica, de manera que permitiera profundizar en la información que de ella se tiene, más allá de su historia y características como técnica de movimiento. Metodológicamente, la investigación fue desarrollada bajo un enfoque cualitativo, siendo esta de tipo descriptivo y apoyada en la información obtenida mediante entrevistas semiestructuradas y observaciones. Como conclusión se evidencio que la organización interior del grupo abordado, le permite a sus integrantes no solo asumir roles de pertenecía en el mismo, sino apropiarse de la práctica como un estilo de vida, que integra los propios valores con los de los entornos a que acude, constituyéndose de este modo en un tipo particular de ciudadano.
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The Digital Generation's Physical Activities
Autor
Pop
2015
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The Anthropologist
Tipo de publicación
Artículo de revista
Idioma
Inglés
Palabras clave
Web Culture, Skateboarding, Biking, Parkour, Winter Olympic Games
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This paper is an original approach about the informal physical activities and the preferences of the youngsters. Digital generation is the young generation born after the PC (personal computer) and Internet was largely introduced. From the early years of life they grow up with computer games, having accounts on social online communities and searching for information on Internet. Sports have their own place in this contemporaneous trend and are in tight relationship with web cultural elements, exploring new spaces and possibilities. Rollers, skateboarders, bikers or the ones who use just their own body for creating new, original movements, and tricks are using new patterns of learning, exercising and communicating. Instead of explanations they use the mobile phone to video recorder and watch the drills. The young people communities formed by common interests, sharing experiences and knowledge have a certain social and cultural value. The high speed, the high technology (IT gadgets) and a high level of adrenaline are, in author’s opinion, the three main factors that define the spirit of the young generation physical activity.
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Lo sublime de la acción. Riesgo, límite y frontera a través del parkour
Autor
Ferrero
2015
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Universidad de Salamanca
Tipo de publicación
Tesis doctoral o similar
Idioma
Español
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El presente trabajo tiene por objeto de estudio dos conceptos bien diferenciados y sobre los que se tratará de poner en relación con el fin de poder observar y comprender las dinámicas que pueden establecerse entre ambos. El primero de ellos el concepto de lo sublime, ampliamente estudiado a lo largo del tiempo en el ámbito académico y el segundo de ellos el parkour, una actividad física a medio camino entre el deporte y el arte, que por su novedad y urgencia se vuelve esencial su estudio y análisis en este caso en clave filosófica.
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Crossing the symbolic boundaries: parkour, gender and urban spaces in Genoa
Autor
Stagi
2015
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Modern Italy
Tipo de publicación
Artículo de revista
Idioma
Inglés
Palabras clave
parkour, gender, symbolic boundaries
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This paper shows how girls and women who practise parkour cross the gendered divisions of space, sport and other symbolic territories that are brought into play by so-called risk-taking sports, and how it may therefore be considered a subversive action. The strategies of negotiation produced by such symbolic crossings are examined via the concepts of reproductive and resistant agency and of gender manoeuvring. In particular the concept of gender manoeuvring will be used to examine the mechanisms of inter- and intra-gender inclusion and exclusion which, within subcultures, pass through a recognition of authenticity. Indeed, in the culture of parkour the question of authenticity emerges when media dissemination produces a split into two distinct practices: art du déplacement and freerunning. The traceuses cross this boundary because of their different origin (they are from the streets as opposed to the gym), thereby building within their gender further discourses on authenticity.
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Raquetas y "parkour" para unir a toda una comunidad
Autor
Pérez
2014
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Cuadernos de pedagogía
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Español
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The Emergence of Action Sports in the Middle East: Imagining New Mobilities with Parkour in Gaza
Autor
Thorpe
2014
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Transnational Mobilities in Action Sport Cultures
Tipo de publicación
Capítulo de libro
Idioma
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Social Medium, Middle East, Action Sport, Arab World, Refugee Camp
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To date, action sports have been a predominantly western phenomenon. Despite increasing diversity, many action sports (such as BMX, surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, windsurfing) have been dominated by young, white, heterosexual, privileged men in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, as well as some Asian countries (particularly Japan) (Beal, 1995; Booth, 2011; Thorpe, 2011; Wheaton & Tomlinson, 1999). Moreover, with many action sports having roots in North America, and the majority of transnational action sport-related media and companies based in the United States, action sports have become closely interconnected with American popular culture, fashion and music, and particularly the ‘cool’ California youth culture aesthetic. For some — though certainly not all — this is part of the appeal. With the development of highly mediated action sport events such as the X Games, Gravity Games, and the inclusion of action sports into the Olympics, highly evocative images of (predominantly North American and European) action sport athletes riding waves, carving down snowy mountains, leaping across buildings and grinding empty swimming pools are reaching even the remotest of destinations. With the rapid expansion of the Internet and the global reach of transnational action sport companies, media and events, combined with the increasingly ‘exotic’ travel patterns of action sport athletes and enthusiasts, children and youth throughout the Eastern world are also exposed to action sports.
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Self and the City: Parkour, Architecture, and the Interstices of the 'Knowable' City
Autor
Lamb
2014
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Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies
Tipo de publicación
Artículo de revista
Idioma
Inglés
Palabras clave
parkour, architecture, body, city, discourse
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Architecture’s presence in the city acts as a mediator through which the always already historical and social contexts are articulated. Architecture can influence our ability to give a comprehensive account of ourselves in the city. Our knowledge of self, our subjectification, is intertwined in the social conditions of our emergence. In effect, we make choices about which practices, or social actions, to enact based on their commensurability with regulatory norms. In many ways our everyday performances are explicitly tied to the presence of architecture. The purpose of this paper is to explore architecture’s participation in the maintenance of hegemonic discourses circumscribing appropriate uses of city space. To understand the effects of architecture on lived experiences I utilize the art of parkour as both a unit of analysis and as a method of investigation. Parkour’s engagement with architecture opens up a new understanding of the city. The data for this study came from several months of my regular participation in the parkour community in the downtown area of Indianapolis, Indiana. Therefore, I was embedded as much as possible in my field site interacting with other traceurs, conducting interviews, and being an active observing participant. To interpret and analyze the potential of parkour I take the position of the critical ethnographer. The purpose is to investigate how traceurs uncover new ways of understanding themselves, not only in relation to, but also in conjunction with, the architecture of the city. Through parkour, the self then finds its expression in the interstices of the knowable city.
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Parkour and the Stilled Image
Autor
Marshall
2014
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Inert Cities
Tipo de publicación
Capítulo de libro
Idioma
Inglés
Palabras clave
parkour, photography
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Connections: Labeling, Resistance and Edgework through Parkour
Autor
Brent
2014
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Understanding Deviance: Connecting Classical and Contemporary Perspectives
Tipo de publicación
BS
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In this collection of 48 reprinted and completely original articles, Tammy Anderson gives her fellow instructors of undergraduate deviance a refreshing way to energize and revitalize their courses. [36 are reprints; 12 are original to this text/anthology] First, in 12 separate sections, she presents a wide range of deviant behaviors, traits, and conditions including: underage drinking and drunk driving, doping in elite sports, gang behavior, community crime, juvenile delinquency, hate crime, prison violence and transgendered prisoners, mental illness, drug-using women and domestic violence, obesity, tattooing, sexual fetishes, prostitution, drug epidemics, viral pandemics, crime control strategies and racial inequality, gay neighborhoods, HIV and bugchasers, and (lastly) youth, multicultural identity and music scenes. Second, her pairing of “classic” and “contemporary” viewpoints about deviance and social control not only “connects” important literatures of the past to today’s (student) readers, her “connections framework” also helps all of us see social life and social processes more clearly when alternative meanings are accorded to similar forms of deviant behavior. We also learn how to appreciate and interact with those who see things differently from ourselves. This may better equip us to reach common goals in an increasingly diverse and ever-changing world. Third, a major teaching goal of Anderson’s anthology is to sharpen students’ critical thinking skills by forcing them to look at how a deviant behavior, trait or condition, can be viewed from opposing or alternative perspectives. By learning to see deviance from multiple perspectives, students will better understand their own and other’s behavior and experiences and be able to anticipate future trends. Balancing multiple perspectives may also assist students in their practical work in social service, criminal justice and other agencies and institutions that deal with populations considered “deviant” in one way or another.
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Trazos urbanos: miradas glocales en la ciudad de Toluca
Autor
Cortés-Murillo
2015
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Contratexto
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Artículo de revista
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Español
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En el presente artículo, se busca comprender la evolución de la ciudad de Toluca en el marco del actual gobierno, para posicionarla como una ciudad global. Pensar las ciudades como acontecimientos públicos es mirarlas como un espacio de comunicación, con una configuración heterogénea, dinámica y tensionada por un conjunto de procesos de carácter local y global. La tríada ciudad-radio-jóvenes representa una guía para acercarnos a lo que sucede en el espacio urbano. En una ciudad que aspira a entrar a las denominadas ciudades globales; donde la Toluca de ayer, de hoy y de mañana ha visto pasar decenas de generaciones, unos acarician ilusiones, otros que soñaron con el futuro, algunos que viven el presente.
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Parkouritiba: conexão entre corpo, cidade e espaço
Autor
Chagas et al.
2015
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Licere (Online)
Tipo de publicación
Artículo de revista
Idioma
Portugés
Palabras clave
Cidades. Área Urbana. Atividades de Lazer.
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O Parkour vem ganhando adeptos em diversos lugares, muitas vezes pela facilidade de acesso, seja no âmbito rural ou urbano. O principal objetivo do Parkour é ir de um ponto a outro de maneira mais rápida e eficiente possível, utilizando-se de habilidades humanas naturais como: correr, saltar, andar e escalar, no meio urbano. Desde 2010, na cidade de Curitiba, acontece o evento Parkouritiba, com o intuito de propor a socialização e a orientação da prática consciente e segura entre participantes. Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo diagnosticar a realização dos eventos do Parkouritiba de 2013 e 2014, identificar os possíveis afastamentos e aproximações dos dois projetos, verificar o público atendido, assim como, discutir a relação entre a prática corporal, a apropriação dos espaços públicos da cidade e a educação urbana.: Parkour is gaining followers in many places, often by the ease of access and practice at rural or urban areas. The Parkour?s main objective is to go from one point to another as quickly and efficiently as possible, using human natural abilities such as running, jumping, walking and climbing. In the city of Curitiba, since 2010, Parkouritiba has the purpose to promote socialization and to guide participants into a secured practice. The objective of this study was to diagnose the events organized by Parkouritiba in 2013 and 2014, and to study the differences and similarities of these two events as well as to discuss the relationship between practice and city public spaces.
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Jump Lisbon! Notes from an ethnography of urban flows
Autor
Ferro
2015
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Portuguese Journal of Social Science
Tipo de publicación
Artículo de revista
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Parkour is a relatively new practice in Portugal. It became popular in Lisbon because it has some public places, including Telheiras and the Parque das Nações, that are appreciated by parkour protagonists. Telheiras has a very special architecture that is ideal for parkour jumping, while the Parque das Nações is a renewed part of the city with good areas and is well served by public transport promoting the meetings between traceurs from across the city and the country. Focusing on the results of an ethnography that has these two points as its main research fields, we will discuss how an examination of these practices requires the construction of an ethnography of urban flows within a multi-scale analysis. This article is based on the results of doctoral research. Intensive fieldwork was carried out with participant observation and the use of ethnographic methodology in an attempt to understand the traceurs’ map of Lisbon.
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El parkour en Avellaneda. Tensiones entre reproducción social, violencia simbólica y los Libres del Sur
Autor
Schargorodsky
2015
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XI Congreso Argentino de Educación Física y Ciencias
Tipo de publicación
Publicación en congreso
Idioma
Español
Palabras clave
Prácticas corporales, Violencia Simbólica, Institucionalización, Procesos de Escolarización.
Resumen
El siguiente trabajo intenta aportar a un análisis de las lógicas de reproducción social enfocando en una práctica, en este caso el Parkour en la ciudad de Avellaneda. Para ello observaremos una serie de tensiones entre lo que podemos identificar como operatorias de violencia simbólica y presuntas estrategias para mitigar, contrarrestar, reapropiar o escapar a tales operatorias. El Parkour asoma como un modo de habitar lo urbano que rompe con ciertas lógicas estipuladas. Rompe con la lógica urbanística, en tanto los espacios delimitados a un tránsito funcional son intervenidos por desplazamientos que evidencian otras posibilidades a las del habitual tránsito. Más allá del carácter disruptivo que en teoría podemos atribuir a esta práctica, son observables en el caso analizado algunos modos de institucionalización y reproducción social. Teniendo en cuenta que en Avellaneda se ha conformado la Asociación de Parkour Libes del Sur y la Escuela Municipal de Parkour, analizaremos algunas tensiones entre lo institucional y lo no institucional, entre lo estatal y lo no estatal, entre lo escolar y lo no escolar e intentaremos hacer foco en el funcionamiento de los sentidos dominantes al interior del grupo, en pugna o en consonancia con sentidos dominantes de su contexto social.
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Managing alternative sports: new organisational spaces for the diffusion of Italian parkour
Autor
Camoletto et al.
2015
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Modern Italy
Tipo de publicación
Artículo de revista
Idioma
Inglés
Palabras clave
parkour, space, organisation, cultural politics, youth
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This article explores the encounter between parkour as an unstructured and culturally innovative practice, challenging both physical as well as organisational spaces, and UISP (Unione Italiana Sport per Tutti/Italian Union of Sport for All) as a sport-promotion body open to organisational and cultural experimentation. Drawing on a multi-method qualitative approach (analysis of documentary material, interviews and focus groups), it looks at the role of UISP in the diffusion and legitimisation of parkour within the Italian context, investigating the interplay between the cultural and organisational logics of both this new practice itself on the one hand, and the organisations that are trying to accommodate it on the other. The incorporation in a sport-for-all organisation like UISP provides traceurs with a safe and legitimised space, which is, however, ‘loose’ enough to maintain the fluidity of the practice. Nonetheless, by enabling the coexistence of different and competing definitions and uses of parkour, this fluid organisational space reproduces tensions among traceurs and weakens their voice in UISP's decision-making processes.
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Parkour y pragmatismo. Convergencias históricas
Autor
Lazcano
2014
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Unversidad de Santiago de Compostela
Tipo de publicación
Trabajo Fin de Grado/Máster o similar
Idioma
Español
Palabras clave
pragmatismo, parkour, arte del desplazamiento, ADD, free running,instrumentalismo, utilitarismo, somaestética, artes del cuerpo, sociedad espectáculo, situacionismo
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En este trabajo intento plasmar el intercambio cultural y la deriva socio-económica en que sedesarrollaron el Pragmatismo (en Norteamérica) y el Parkour (en Francia). Ambas disciplinasfilosóficas me parecen representativas de la respuesta naturalista a los excesos del racionalismo y lamodernidad posindustrial. El pragmatismo por el lado más académico, y el parkour por el lado más práctico. Para abordar estas convergencias históricas, así como la situación actual que se le deriva,me voy a centrar en el ambiente social que provocó su emergencia, la respuesta que propusieron yde qué manera evolucionaron a través de sus principales representantes. En el último apartadoveremos cómo, bajo el término somaestética ideado recientemente por Richard Shusterman, parkour y pragmatismo se dan definitivamente la mano.
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Fun-parks or Parkour? The ambiguities and paradox of planning pro-creative office design
Autor
Thanem & Värlander
2014
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The Handbook on Management and Creativity
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Is Parkour a Problem? College and University Liability for Extreme Sport Activities
Autor
De Martini
2014
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Recreational Sports Journal
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Artículo de revista
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higher education: institutional liability: legal risk: university recreation
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Parkour, an extreme recreational activity in which one overcomes obstacles in the most quick, efficient, and flowing way, encompasses running, jumping, vaulting, and climbing. The activity is gaining popularity on college campuses. The purposes of this study were to survey campus recreation administrators' views and policies on parkour and explore the potential legal liability higher education institutions face with the rise in participation in this potentially dangerous activity. The results showed little sanctioned parkour activity on college campuses and that recreation administrators do not appear to be worried. The legal analysis indicated that currently colleges and universities would not likely face legal liability for students who are injured while participating. However, prudent college recreational professionals must remain aware of new activities on campus and may want to take additional steps to insulate themselves from risks of legal liability. ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR
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Misuse of The Monument: The art of parkour and the discursive limits of a disciplinary architecture
Autor
Lamb
2014
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Journal of Urban Cultural Studies,
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This article explores the emancipatory potential of misuse. Through the practice of parkour, I investigate misuse as a form of empowerment within entanglements of power demarcating acceptable uses of city space. I critically examine my experience practising parkour on Monument Circle in Indianapolis, Indiana. The research questions include, first, how can we define the misuse of space? What can the misuse of Monument Circle teach us about how architecture communicates the interests of power? Can parkour be a practice of empowerment that challenges spatial expectations of use? Foucault’s discussion of disciplinary power theoretically frames the understanding of discourse, power and the use of misuse. Lefebvre’s theorizations on the production of space ground an understanding of the body in and around architecture. Offered here is an analysis of parkour’s misuse of architecture and its challenge of disciplinary power codified and maintained in the built environment.
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La resignificación del uso de los espacios públicos a partir de la práctica de deportes urbanos realizada por los jóvenes en Suba: una lectura desde la pedagogía urbana
Autor
Fernández
2014
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Universidad Pedagógica Nacional
Tipo de publicación
Trabajo Fin de Grado/Máster o similar
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Español
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Trabajo de grado donde el autor pretende dar a conocer la forma como los jóvenes resignifican el uso de los espacios públicos a través de la practica de los deportes urbanos, debido al gran auge de estas, en espacios que fueron diseñados con un uso específico de acuerdo a la normatividad, pero que desde hace un tiempo, vienen siendo utilizados con el fin de satisfacer las necesidades que van surgiendo de las nuevas ciudadanías, encontrando que de acuerdo a la norma y a las necesidades de este sector de la población, los jóvenes se ven enfrentados a una realidad en cuanto a la estructura de su ciudad que no favorece para nada sus aficiones deportivas y por lo tanto se ven abocados a la transformación de estos espacios trasgrediendo la normas estipuladas, lo que genera un sin número de tensiones tanto con las autoridades, como con algunos miembros de la comunidad. En el proceso de investigación se puede evidenciar que los jóvenes han podido recalificar algunos espacios como andenes, calles, pasos peatonales, escaleras y además han forjado una red de relaciones que favorecen la convivencia entre ellos como jóvenes deportistas, con la comunidad, con las autoridades y con el medio ambiente fomentando valores como la tolerancia, la ayuda mutua, pertenencia, aceptación y respeto a la diferencia además del cuidado al medio ambiente y al entorno. Por otro lado los jóvenes se han organizado motivando a las autoridades tanto locales como distritales para que agenden en sus proyectos actividades que promueven estas prácticas como lo es el festival de verano de Bogotá y las programadas por IDRD como el DUNT que es una ventana para que se puedan exhibir los alcances en estas modalidades.
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