Park of the Affects: Communication, to Be Together and Recognition in the Intersubjectives Relations of Young People in Their Experience of Inhabit a Park

This article presents a research done with young people in the city of Cali-Colombia and investigates their ways of being together, their forms of recognition and their intersubjectives relationships that underlie the experience of inhabiting a certain park. The affective turn of cultural studies and Spinoza’s affective theory are those that illuminate the work that corresponds to a comprehensive study with an ethnographic approach and takes up the narratives of young people to describe the topophilia or room experience. The main results of the research point to the affective communities as the new forms of grouping of young people, the language of affection, the mixing of expressive languages with those that weave their communicative ties and perform their practices of resistance in defense of place, which is not only a place to be but is constituted instead of being.