Architectures émergentes à El Alto (Bolivie): essai d’interprétation sociologique

Architectures émergentes à El Alto (Bolivie): essai d’interprétation sociologique

This article applies Bourdieu’s analysis of the formation of the “scholastic habitus” in medieval times, elaborated in his 1967 afterword to his French translation of Erwin Panofsky’s Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism (2005 [1967]), to a different historical case and social context, namely the c...

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Autore principale: Poupeau, Franck
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Lingua:Français
Pubblicazione: Environnement urbain / Urban Environment 2015
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architecture
dual truth
symbolic power
habitus
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:eue_601 fr https://journals.openedition.org/eue/601 2015-11-25T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/g9c7 All rights reserved Architectures émergentes à El Alto (Bolivie): essai d’interprétation sociologique Environnement urbain / Urban Environment Institut national de Recherche scientifique Urbanisation Culture et Société info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1916-4645 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/eue Poupeau, Franck architecture dual truth symbolic power habitus This article applies Bourdieu’s analysis of the formation of the “scholastic habitus” in medieval times, elaborated in his 1967 afterword to his French translation of Erwin Panofsky’s Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism (2005 [1967]), to a different historical case and social context, namely the correspondence between indigenous mental categories and architectural efflorescence in a city of the contemporary Andes: El Alto. This same principle of homology between mental categories and building layout (rooted in a common habitus) can be used to interpret one of the most spectacular characteristics of “emerging architectures” known as chalets in Bolivia. The term chalet designates a hybrid structure consisting of a penthouse and storey dwelling built on the rooftops. The chalets are architectural forms embedded within an economy of symbolic goods characterized by a “dual truth”: they are at once material and symbolic; they perform economic functions while at the same time seeking conspicuous exposure and public visibility. The hypothesis developed here is that the conspicuous lifestyle revealed by the construction of chalets on the rooftops can be understood by reference to the emerging social power of the indigenous (cholos) elites. This article thus identifies in the fraternities of El Alto the structural equivalent of the scholastic institution that Bourdieu associated with Gothic architecture, in order to reveal the formation of a specific habitus, shared among urban categories defined by similar residential locations, economic activities and forms of collective organization.
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topic architecture
dual truth
symbolic power
habitus
spellingShingle architecture
dual truth
symbolic power
habitus
Poupeau, Franck
Architectures émergentes à El Alto (Bolivie): essai d’interprétation sociologique
description This article applies Bourdieu’s analysis of the formation of the “scholastic habitus” in medieval times, elaborated in his 1967 afterword to his French translation of Erwin Panofsky’s Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism (2005 [1967]), to a different historical case and social context, namely the correspondence between indigenous mental categories and architectural efflorescence in a city of the contemporary Andes: El Alto. This same principle of homology between mental categories and building layout (rooted in a common habitus) can be used to interpret one of the most spectacular characteristics of “emerging architectures” known as chalets in Bolivia. The term chalet designates a hybrid structure consisting of a penthouse and storey dwelling built on the rooftops. The chalets are architectural forms embedded within an economy of symbolic goods characterized by a “dual truth”: they are at once material and symbolic; they perform economic functions while at the same time seeking conspicuous exposure and public visibility. The hypothesis developed here is that the conspicuous lifestyle revealed by the construction of chalets on the rooftops can be understood by reference to the emerging social power of the indigenous (cholos) elites. This article thus identifies in the fraternities of El Alto the structural equivalent of the scholastic institution that Bourdieu associated with Gothic architecture, in order to reveal the formation of a specific habitus, shared among urban categories defined by similar residential locations, economic activities and forms of collective organization.
author Poupeau, Franck
author_facet Poupeau, Franck
author_sort Poupeau, Franck
title Architectures émergentes à El Alto (Bolivie): essai d’interprétation sociologique
title_short Architectures émergentes à El Alto (Bolivie): essai d’interprétation sociologique
title_full Architectures émergentes à El Alto (Bolivie): essai d’interprétation sociologique
title_fullStr Architectures émergentes à El Alto (Bolivie): essai d’interprétation sociologique
title_full_unstemmed Architectures émergentes à El Alto (Bolivie): essai d’interprétation sociologique
title_sort architectures émergentes à el alto (bolivie): essai d’interprétation sociologique
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