El barrio popular en Bogotá en las voces de sus protagonistas. Madres comunitarias y jardineras: 1980-2011, Usme y Ciudad Bolívar.

Abstract

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17227/01234870.38folios121.140This paper presents the results of a study about women’s role in poor neighborhoods, basically from their work in childcare initiatives. The study was carried out as a master’s thesis in the Social Studies program at National Pedagogical University in Bogota, Colombia, and can be inscribed in the context of Latin American social studies about working class neighborhoods. These studies have documented the emergence of conflicts and struggles as a consequence of a hasty and complex urban modernizing project –i.e. the very big mass of people not absorbed by the labor or house framework planned for the development and growth of the cities in the region during the twentieth century. In this complex environment women emerge as important actors who have played a significant role to solve pressing situations in new settlements, such as feeding families and caring children.