Ocio y apropiación socioespacial desde una perspectiva feminista: El caso del Cerro Cordillera, Valparaíso

This article looks at the ways in which leisure practices create appropriation of urban space in the case of women from Cerro Cordillera in Valparaíso, Chile. Using an ethnographic approach, we focus on the everyday life of a group of women to find three types of socio spatial leisure practices: communitarian, personal and collective. The first type corresponds to women participation and work in the recovery of unused space in the city like empty sites, ravines and ran down places that are being used as public space in the neighbourhood. The second type is personal practices that explore more intimate relationships between leisure activities and the city, as for example, walking or using streets as viewpoints. Finally, collective practices are those in which women create networks of friendship and care through leisure. The article analyses the social production of public space by looking at how the personal and communitarian spheres are linked through leisure and it claims for the importance of women practices and strategies of spatial appropriation.