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FOUST RODRIGUEZ, David. Frustration and paradoxes of aspirational projects in a gated community of Guadalajara’s metropolitan are. Polis [online]. 2020, vol.16, n.1, pp.145-176.  Epub 02-Out-2020. ISSN 2594-0686.  https://doi.org/10.24275/uam/izt/dcsh/polis/2020v16n1/foust.

The goal of this article is to show the tensions and paradoxes of middle class aspirational projects in a gated community of Guadalajara’s metropolitan area. Following a mixed method approach, between 2012 and 2014, field research was undertaken in a gated community in Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco. Participants’ positioning analysis was done by cross-checking cluster analysis and the associated discourses. The result of this analysis is an account of the social and economic heterogeneity; and of middle class households’ aspirations, contradictions, paradoxes and frustrations while trying to escape downward social mobility in a neocolonial society with persistent inequality.

Palavras-chave : Residential segregation; gated communities; middle class; contemporary aspirational projects; Latin American metropolitan areas.