De la sociabilidad vigilante a la urbanidad privativa. Homogeneización residencial, usos citadinos y ciudadanía en Caracas

Abstract

In the last 20 years, the phenomena generally classified in terms of “personal insecurity” or “urban violence” have yielded significant changes in the metropolitan variables and in the social relations conforming or not the inhabitants as citizens and civics in Caracas. By assessing the installation, proliferation and normalization of security devices established by civil neighbor associations in order to protect urbanizations of middle and high class sectors, and legitimized by the acts or omissions of several government and non government institutions, it is possible to measure, according to the principles of pragmatic sociology, how in Caracas contemporary forms of segregation and of residential homogenization are crystallized between watchful sociability and exclusive urbanity