La Fama Neighborhood: History, Space and Collective Identity

Abstract

This paper explores the way space, historical dynamics, social relations, collective identity and memory have a close and unbreakable relationship. Along this work, we will analyze, from a sociologic and geographic perspective, how those elements have been embodied in the neighbourhood La Fama ―located in the political municipality of Tlalpan, at south of México City― and how the urbanization process has impacted not only as relevant spatial transformations, but in the very bond between space and collective identity.