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“Ulls per on la policia no hi veu” (O, Imaginando al “enemigo”). Punición, exclusión y nuevos regímenes de visibilidad desde el vigilantismo online en Barcelona.
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[spa]En este artículo me aproximo al activismo cívico-securitario en Ciutat Vella en Barcelona a
través de una plataforma online de vigilancia y denuncia ciudadana. Con ello, investigo las
continuidades y discontinuidades entre el vigilantismo en línea y las formas clásicas de
vigilantismo (off-line), y como el primero se reproduce con efectividad a través de
particularidades del espacio digital. Estas nuevas formas online, además, han posibilitado, en
el contexto etnográfico investigado, vehicular formas preexistentes de: exclusión y distinción
social; reafirmación de una supuesta superioridad moral y estrategias de preservación de un
orden moral; y de control social y punición. Además, en el emplazamiento digital de las
actividades las dimensiones disciplinaria y punitiva del vigilantismo se ejecutan por medio de
una expresión concreta de lo visual -o lo visible- y el uso de imágenes, y en un momento de
establecimiento de un nuevo régimen de visibilidad.
[eng]In this article I approach securitarian activism in Ciutat Vella in Barcelona through an online neighborhood watch group. My research focuses on showing continuities and discontinuities between online vigilantism and classic forms of vigilantism (off-line), and how the former is effectively reproduced through particularities of digital space. These new online forms have also made it possible, in the ethnographic context where the research is placed, to convey pre-existing forms of: social exclusion and distinction; reaffirmation of a supposed moral superiority and strategies for preserving a moral order; and of social control and punishment. Furthermore, in the digital setting of the activities the disciplinary and punitive dimensions of vigilantism are executed through a concrete expression of the visual - or the visible - and the use of images, and at a time when a new visibility regime is being established.
[eng]In this article I approach securitarian activism in Ciutat Vella in Barcelona through an online neighborhood watch group. My research focuses on showing continuities and discontinuities between online vigilantism and classic forms of vigilantism (off-line), and how the former is effectively reproduced through particularities of digital space. These new online forms have also made it possible, in the ethnographic context where the research is placed, to convey pre-existing forms of: social exclusion and distinction; reaffirmation of a supposed moral superiority and strategies for preserving a moral order; and of social control and punishment. Furthermore, in the digital setting of the activities the disciplinary and punitive dimensions of vigilantism are executed through a concrete expression of the visual - or the visible - and the use of images, and at a time when a new visibility regime is being established.
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Treballs Finals de Grau Antropologia Social i Cultural, Facultat de Geografia i Història, Universitat de Barcelona, Curs: 2020-2021, Tutor: Mikel Aramburu Otazu
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ESPINACH, Marina. “Ulls per on la policia no hi veu” (O, Imaginando al “enemigo”). Punición, exclusión y nuevos regímenes de visibilidad desde el vigilantismo online en Barcelona. [consulted: 11 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/182015