Abstract

FALCONI, Octavio. The construction of a public space among students of CCH-Sur: writing practices in the context of the strike in the UNAM (1999-2000). Nueva antropol [online]. 2003, vol.19, n.62, pp.55-75. ISSN 0185-0636.

This article analyses how the students of a preparatory school (CCH-Sur), in the context of the strike in the UNAM (1999-2000), developed a public space for the expression of public opinion by means of their writing. It interprets the cultural practice of writing as linked to the history of its social uses, and analyses the non-academic writing practices, their function, and the meaning attributed to them by the students on strike. It also describes how these social actors produced their texts appropriating diverse written material and objects both of the school on strike and from other socio-cultural spaces. Writing was related to the construction of authorship and articulated within the power relations maintained between editors and readership, both drawn from the student body. The article shows how, by means of the interchange of written texts, the students tried to promote dialogue and a new form of social and cultural participation.

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