Mauro Castro Campos He has a doctorate in Political Science from the uab, Associate Professor at the Department of Business Organization of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (CPU) and advisor to the Barcelona City Council for the creation of a legal, regulatory and administrative framework that recognizes community management and urban commons.

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Gentrification and culture: a discussion based on experiences in Guadalajara, Mexico and Barcelona, Spain

Interview with
  • Mauro Castro Campos
  • Nizaiá Cassián Yde

  • Christian O. Grimaldo-Rodríguez
  • Hector Robledo

This interview is a conversation that occurred during the summer of 2019, planned in the context of an international intensive summer course offered by the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education (iteso) entitled Social Psychology, gentrification and culture. We seek to raise parallels and distinctions between the way in which urban dispossession processes operate in both Latin American and European cities, especially from the situated analysis of Guadalajara, Mexico, and Barcelona, Spain. The discussion addresses the relationship of abstract concepts such as public space and citizenship; sociocultural constructions such as race and gender, and the political, economic and cultural phenomenon known as gentrification, understood as a global process based on a city model based on the commercialization of urban life.