Nizaiá Cassián Yde She has a doctorate in social psychology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (uab), currently a professor-researcher at the Open University of Catalonia, with experience in the field of urban studies, transformations in the contemporary post-Fordist city and feminist studies, particularly in the analysis of socio-spatial relationships around care, the body and social production and reproduction.

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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.