Cercamiento, limites

A historical review reveals that the invention of physical limits is linked to the process of

sedentary settling. The action of materializing compartmentalization into space may date back

to the days when the first Sumerian cities were fortified with walls. Such a broad perspective

indicates that national borders, even if they have strongly... See more

By the end of the century Mayhew’s successor Charles Booth produced the Poverty Maps

(1889–99), hand-colored to show seven classes in the metropolis, street by street: the lowest

class, vicious, semi-criminal; the very poor, casual employment; the poor; the mixed, some

comfortable, others poor; the fairly comfortable, good ordinary wages; the... See more

Far more than (real or imaginary) lines on the ground, sea, air and space, we need to

acknowledge that boundaries, borders and frontiers are the results of diverse interactions

between humans. They are based on diferent rationales and hold diverse implications

for coexistence, in both cases contingent on specifc historical circumstances. They are

n... See more

Ultimately, she said, a world made up of atomized, physically isolated people is a world without a true shared reality—which is a recipe for civic disengagement, misinformation, and perhaps even political extremism.

Moving from geographical boundaries of the state to the boundaries of identity, Connolly

considers a pluralized culture’s most sensitive political crux as “the tendency by established

identities to fundamentalize what they are by demonizing or rendering needy what they

are not” (1985 194), highlighting the ambiguity of boundaries, that they bond... See more

Cercamiento, campo cerrado o enclosure. Es un término, utilizado en la propiedad agraria inglesa, que hace referencia a la apropiación de "baldíos"​ o "tierra común"​ y, al hacerlo, privar a los plebeyos de sus derechos de acceso y privilegio.

La acumulación originaria, acumulación previa o acumulación primitiva es un concepto acuñado por Karl Marx en los capítulos XXIV y XXV del primer volumen de El capital. Es una precondición de los procesos de acumulación del capital.