Discurso y relaciones de poder en la primera mitad del siglo XX

Identificador:  TDX:1493

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX1493

Autors:  Kingman Garcés, Eduardo

Resum:
The dissertation tries to explain the transition from the aristocratic city to the so-called the city of the first modernity. Its intertexture is Quito, at the ending of the XIX century and the beginning of the XX century. Although it's an historical investigation, it has been oriented from the perspective of the problems and answers of the present. The thesis shows the economic, social, cultural and urban factors that had operated during the transitional process. It reviews, also, some of the mechanisms of population's administration that came in play during the period in analysis, as well as the discourses and imaginaries that served as their basis. It treats about the mechanisms of poverty care that performed under the charity idea and its passing to a system of beneficence and public assistance. We analyze, also, the ambiguous relationships between the hygienist modern systems and urban planning, and the Ornament and police systems. The thesis pays particular attention to the administration's systems of the population and individuals in urban and urban-rural contexts. To cover this target we review different spaces that goes from city suburbs to hospitals and hospices.Quito's descriptions in XVIII century and the first half of XIX century, at the same time that provides us a report of the development of patrimonial links based on the differentiation of hierarchical orders, shows us a plebeian city in which the cultural forms 'that breaks away with norms' were generalized and in which life styles 'had been mixed'. This aristocratic, 'estamental' order, as well as diverse, began to be modified itself in social and cultural terms, specifically in the case of Quito, at the end of XIX century and the first decades of XX century, in the context of a type of peripheral mod