La otra ciudadactivismo urbano, movimientos sociales y producción corpo-política del espacio
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Universidade da Coruña
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Publisher: Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia (CIES-IUL) ; Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL)
ISBN: 978-972-8048-28-0
Year of publication: 2018
Volume Title: CollectiveCity: the right to the city, 50 years later
Volume: 1
Pages: 25-36
Congress: International Conference of Young Urban Researchers (3. 2018. Lisboa)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
Based on my ethnography on contemporary activism, focused on the practices and experiences of different groups and movements, I will discuss in this text the relationships between body, city and politics, analyzing the recent reappropriation of the "right to the city" discourse, resemantized and repolitized frequently in recent years. If the original meaning of Lefebvre's expression defended that urban right to have rights as a vindication of access to resources, the updated reading of authors like Harvey now contemplates not only the access to resources as the way to materialize the right to city, but also contemplates the right to make the city itself, to intervene in it directly -in its planning, in its infrastructures-; the right to participate in its own materiality and traceability, to transform it, reimagine it and redesign it by civil society with their own hands, with their own bodies.