When a habit meets a habit at the city dump: persistence and adaptability of habit in Única mirando al mar (2010)
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Carpenter, VictoriaAffiliation
University of BedfordshireIssue Date
2023-05-15Subjects
habithabitus
posthegemony
Pierre Bourdieu
Fernando Contreras Castro
Costa Rica
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Fernando Contreras Castro’s novel Única mirando al mar (1993 and 2010) is a bitter, scathing social critique of Costa Rica’s government which occasionally remembers its duty to its tax payers and environment. Re-written in 2010 after the closure of Río Azul, a landfill near San José, it explores the way this action affected the population of the landfill, locally known as the buzos (scuba divers). The critiques of the novel address primarily the buzos’ resilience and the complexity of the relationship between the buzos’ society and the rest of the country. This study will consider the buzos’ society as a social order based on habit and trace its adaptability and persistence in face of multiple changes to the buzos’ life. To this end, I will use the theory of posthegemony with a particular focus on Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of habit and habitus to explore the adaptability and persistence of the buzos’ habitus as reflected in habitual practices, rituals, and ritual language. I will analyse the 2010 version of the novel, published after the closure of the landfill.Citation
Carpenter V (2023) 'When a habit meets a habit at the city dump: persistence and adaptability of habit in Única mirando al mar (2010)', Forum for Modern Language Studies, 59 (2), pp.183-201.Publisher
Oxford University PressAdditional Links
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enISSN
0015-8518EISSN
1471-6860ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1093/fmls/cqad031
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