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The 1968 student movement was the product of a network of sociopolitical alliances between students from public and private universities in Mexico. In this article I will analyze, from the sociology of social movements and political and cultural geography perspectives, how this collective movement was built in the Vocacional 7, of the National Polytechnic Institute; how the link between collective action, identity and space crystallized; the forms of material, political and symbolic appropriation of the space, as well as what this school represented for some of its former students. For this, eighteen in-depth interviews were applied to alumni of the Vocacional, all of them participants in this social movement. As we will see, space was an important mobilization resource, as well as being a factor that was part of the collective identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a sociological interpretation about the way that space, collective identity and memory embody in the neighborhood La Fama, south of México City. Diverse ethnographic techniques were applied -as in-depth interviews, participant observation, mental maps, tours in the neighborhood with locals-. As we will see, the collective identity of the locals, has a close relationship with several vital places, which in turn are triggers of the intersubjective memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Space and time are fundamental elements in the articulation of society. However, for several years, space has been forgotten. This article attempts a theoretical problematization of space, starting with a review of diverse precepts that emerge from classical and contemporary sociological thought, as well as human geography. It seeks to underline the inseparable, recurring relationship between space and society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]