The thesis deals with our anthropological ideas of everyday life practices and space. In this context, I prefer to speak of the space that comes out of people's interactions as a capacity.
Space is an instrument which can be used to obtain things.
It is, for that reason, charged with power, the power to open up possibilities. This quality of space brings forth and illuminates its inherent political dimension. In the thesis I support my view on space on an ethnographic account of the socio-spatial rhythms out of which everyday life in the Chilean city of Antofagasta is constructed. The practice of space, I hope to demonstrate, infuses social relationships with an additional social dimension where a whole new array of possibilities can be played out.