Social housing By Pedro Paulo A . Funari

https://www.academia.edu/3771291/Social_housing?email_work_card=title&li=0 This article discusses the structuring of domination in everyday life, studied through private housing material culture, over a period of several centuries. Our case study deals with the processes of use of space and the changes in middle-class households in Buenos Aires since the late eighteenth century, highlighting both world and Latin American contexts. We show how morphological and spatial changes in households are related both to the wider world capitalist context and to local conditions, shaping peoples lives. We focus on the controlling features of housing, affecting not only the middle classes, but potentially the whole spectrum of social classes. Capitalism tends to individualize space, create private environments, restrict movement and control movement in general and houses as material 02 Funari (JG/d) 25/10/02 8:35 am Page 23 24 Journal of Social Archaeology 3(1)