CARTAGENA THINKS: HOUSING, POLITICS AND URBAN REGENERATION: PUNISHING THE POOR?

CARTAGENA THINKS: HOUSING, POLITICS AND URBAN REGENERATION: PUNISHING THE POOR?

Based on two sociological studies of the Los Mateos neighborhood in Cartagena and the La Paz neighborhood in Murcia, this book explores the problems of social and residential exclusion in our cities. The stigma of "rough neighborhoods" obscures the dynamics of urban segregation suffered by the most vulnerable and disenfranchised populations. Public policies fail to offer solutions to the problems of inequality and exclusion from the right to housing. Pollution and environmental degradation are also prevalent in impoverished neighborhoods, as the case of Los Mateos demonstrates.

Participants: Mari Ángeles Vila, resident of Los Mateos; Manolo García, member of the Rascasa Association.
The authors of the book: Miguel Ángel Alzamora (Sociology, University of Murcia), Marta Latorre (Sociology, University of Murcia), Damián Martínez (Sociology, University of Granada), Andrés Pedreño (Sociology, University of Murcia).

Presented by: Jeisson Martínez Leguízamo, professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Murcia and member of the Cartagena Piensa Promoter Group.

DATE: May 12, 2026

 

TIME: 8:00 PM

LOCATION: Josefina Soria Library. The Luzzy