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Original Articles

Along the border: affective promotion or inhibition of conduct in urban spaces / A lo largo de la frontera: promoción o inhibición afectiva de la conducta en los espacios urbanos

Pages 245-281 | Received 31 Jul 2018, Accepted 10 Jan 2019, Published online: 19 Mar 2019
 

Abstract

The concepts of borders, tensegrity and goal-oriented meaningful conduct are used to study the conditions in which affects and conducts can (or cannot) emerge in urban spaces. We assume psychological phenomena are liminal and emerge in the border zones between different individual and collective states. The main focus of the study is the process of affective meaning-making that takes place at specific locations (the border zones) in urban living. Through an example of autoethnography, we try to understand how the symbolic space is used in everyday life to produce, maintain and demolish signs that self-regulate and hetero-regulate complex atmospheres, affects and conducts.

Resumen

Los conceptos de fronteras, tensegridad, y conducta significativamente orientada a los objetivos se utilizan para estudiar las condiciones en las que los afectos y las conductas pueden (o no) emerger en los espacios urbanos. Asumimos que los fenómenos psicológicos son liminales y surgen en las zonas fronterizas entre diferentes estados individuales y colectivos. El foco principal del estudio es el proceso de construcción de significados afectivos, que tiene lugar en emplazamientos específicos (las zonas fronterizas) de la vida urbana. A través de un ejemplo de auto-etnografía, intentamos comprender de qué forma se utiliza el espacio simbólico en la vida cotidiana para producir, mantener y acabar con signos que se auto-regulan y hetero-regulan ambientes, conductas y afectos complejos.

Acknowledgements / Agradecimientos

This article has been possible thanks to the project ‘The administration of fear: using art to study psycho-social phenomena’, funded by the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, 2016 International Network Programme. / Este artículo ha sido posible gracias al proyecto ‘The administration of fear: using art to study psycho-social phenomena’ (La administración del miedo: usando el arte para estudiar los fenómenos psicosociales) financiado por la Agencia Danesa para la Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, 2016 International Network Programme).

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors./ Los autores no han referidoningún potencial conflicto de interés en relación con este artículo.

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