Abstract

BECERRA POZOS, Julio César. Towards a characterization of semiprivate spaces of nocturnality (noctem): diversity and differentiated access in Mexican bars. Forum Sociológico [online]. 2023, n.43, pp.25-33.  Epub Dec 22, 2023. ISSN 0872-8380.  https://doi.org/10.4000/sociologico.11771.

From the multi-situated ethnographic practice, this paper outlines a proposal for a flexible characterisation of night-time economy spaces through the social theory of space, conceived to account for its dynamic, liminal and interconstructed character. This is combined with an analysis of socio-technical configuration from labour studies to reflect on the way in which processes of precariousness and systemic violence impact on the expectations, experiences, and access of those who seek, construct and experience it, thus creating other forms of nocturnality (noctem) that are outside the canons of the established night-time economy (NTE). As a result, six open models of a configuration of semi-private night-time economy spaces that could be encompassed under a broad notion of bars are listed. Subsequently, some brief and emerging considerations are presented on spaces of paralegal and divergent liminalities in conditions of precariousness and systemic violence, ‘residual’ for State policies on the night and the night-time economy. Finally, it reflects on the scope and limitations of this proposal.

Keywords : nocturnality; methodology; social space; inequality.

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