Open Journal of Social Sciences, 2019, 7, 375-385 https://www.scirp.org/journal/jss ISSN Online: 2327-5960 ISSN Print: 2327-5952 DOI: 10.4236/jss.2019.712029 Dec. 26, 2019 375 Open Journal of Social Sciences Urban Dispositions of Violences. A Brief Panorama at Socio-Spatial Logics of Violence at Latin American City Emiliano Duering Cufré Autonomous University of Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico Abstract Nowadays, when all the forms of violence have become something normal and they are part of our everyday life, mainly for the so-called developing countries, it is essential to inquire about everyday beliefs and practices, which enable coercive links or their invisibility. Dispositions are intellectual me- chanisms that define trends of action for individuals in a given context and situation; they are based mainly on beliefs and the characteristics of the so- cio-spatial context. This analysis discusses the question: what are dispositions that legitimize and promote the segregated city? Our thinking is based on a review of several studies, and empirical research on the peripheral and central public spaces in large cities, especially some recent research on violence in the outskirts of Mexico City. In other words, we intend to examine it from the point of view of the groups that suffer most from the violence. But mainly it is about proposing an examination of our preferences and desires to inhabit ci- ties in search of the mechanisms that protect us from discomfort, but which, at the same time, tend to harbour the seeds of human violence. Keywords Daily Life, Legitimation of Segregation, Dispositions, Public Spaces, Violence 1. Urban Dispositions The patterns of economic segregation of urban spaces, at least in Latin America, seem to predominate over initiatives having perspectives of social equity or en- vironmental balance. As CEPAL has pointed out, the income inequality between households and people, although it has been reduced since the early 2000s, continues as a high How to cite this paper: Cufré, E.D. (2019) Urban Dispositions of Violences. A Brief Panorama at Socio-Spatial Logics of Vi- olence at Latin American City. Open Jour- nal of Social Sciences, 7, 375-385. https://doi.org/10.4236/jss.2019.712029 Received: November 4, 2019 Accepted: December 23, 2019 Published: December 26, 2019 Copyright © 2019 by author(s) and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access