Abstract

RODRIGUEZ, Norma; COSTA, Everaldo Batista da; VIEYRA, Antonio  and  MENDEZ-LEMUS, Yadira. Method for periurban studies: a latin american experience. Finisterra [online]. 2019, n.111, pp.153-174. ISSN 0430-5027.  https://doi.org/10.18055/Finis17289.

The Periurban is a dialectically peripheral space, derived, open, selective, discontinuous, fractioned, unstable and differentiated; an eccentric centrality. This simultaneity of spatial dimensions difficult the adoption of a method that captures its complexity and movement. The aim of this article is to provide elements for the methodical approach (from the abstract universal to singular concrete), to understand the peri-urban, the case of the ejidos in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico were selected for this purpose. This study considers: i) a theoretical-methodological framework applied to the peri-urban ejido in Mexico; ii) the genesis and process of the ejido as a global-local, urban-rural, spatial formation, with its own functions and social power structure and; iii) an approach to the essence of the periurban ejido, in search of the concretion of the phenomenon, through the conditions of existence of the ejidatarios. It is a question of understanding the rural-urban transformations through a phenomenological and dialectical reading of the ejido and the ejidatario from the Mexican experience.

Keywords : Periurban; historical materialism; phenomenology; ejido and ejidatario; Mexico.

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