Clara Irazábal
Biographic Data
| ID | 280065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clara Irazábal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clara |
| FAMILY NAME | Irazábal |
| SIGNATURE | IRAZÁBAL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | international urban planning in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Latin American Perspectives on the Urban Century: Planning Challenges and Opportunities
Resisting the neo-liberal neighbourhood’s straitjacket: Relational neighbourhood geographies in Chile and Spain
This article proposes a critical and complex reading of the configuration and reconfiguration of the neighbourhood (barrio) based on a comparative analysis of two case studies in Spain and Chile. Neighbourhood life is assumed to be organised around complex, open and dynamic relationships articulated in different relational geographies and not limited to a restricted space–time frame. We propose the concept of ‘relational neighbourhood geographies…
City Making and Urban Governance in the Americas: Curitiba and Portland
Trust and Hometown Associations in Haitian Post‐Earthquake Reconstruction
The 7.0 magnitude earthquake on January 12, 2010 in Haiti reawakened in the diaspora a strong sense of purpose to focus efforts beyond family remittances towards regional and national development. Yet Haitian hometown associations ( HHTA s) in the US struggled to establish a strong, organizational structure to respond systematically and effectively to the country's increased post‐earthquake needs. Based on historical analysis, participatory obser…
Planning Latin American Cities: Housing and Citizenship
Planning Latin American Cities: Dependencies and “Best Practices
Indigenous Women and Violence in Colombia: Agency, Autonomy, and Territoriality
The violence and de/reterritorializing strategies used by armed groups in Colombia disproportionally affect indigenous peoples, especially indigenous women, whose ethno-gender roles, forms of territoriality, agency, and autonomy are being altered. Conflict and new forms of territoriality restrict the satisfaction of ethno-gender-based material needs and interests, with negative impacts on women's own and their families' lives. At the same time, t…
Transbordering Latin Americas: Liminal Places, Cultures, and Powers (T)here
Introduction: What Do We Mean by Transbordering Latin Americas? Clara Irazabal Part I: Gender and Image-Making 1. On the Move: Globalizing Subcultures in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas Stephan Lanz 2. Gender, Transnationalism and Empowerment in Postville, Iowa: Women with Electronic Shackles Gerardo Francisco Sandoval and Luz Hernandez 3. Gang of the Barrio: Invention and Negative Trans-Nationalization of a Latin American Figure of Urbanity Yves Pedraz…
Immigration and integration: Religious and political activism for/with immigrants in Los Angeles
Although the role of religion in the lives of immigrants has recently been a subject of interest by scholars, there has not been much focus on the importance of the religio-political activism of faith-based and community organizations in favour of immigrants. This article focuses on a religious congregation, Immanuel Presbyterian Church, and a community-organizing network, the Salvadoran American National Association, to demonstrate how religion …
Reflections on the Venezuelan Transition from a Capitalist Representative to a Socialist Participatory Democracy: What Are Planners to Do
Venezuela is experiencing a transitional political process in which the government and the majority of Venezuelans want to move from a capitalist representative democracy to a more socialist participatory democracy. This transition is enmeshed in complexities, contradictions, and political opposition. Reflection on the experience of accompanying neighborhood groups in local decision making in Caracas from 2002 to 2006 suggests that planning pract…
Ordinary places, extraordinary events: Citizenship, democracy, and public space in Latin America
Neighbourhoods in the Lead: Grassroots planning for social transformation in post-Katrina New Orleans
Since August 2005 when levee failures after hurricane Katrina destroyed 80% of the city of New Orleans, popular media and local residents alike have frequently used the term ‘citizens’ revolution’ to describe the autonomous grassroots planning process in the post-Katrina city (Nossiter, 2006). Although the phenomenon of grassroots participation has been generally regarded as unprecedented in the history of the city, and perhaps even the nation, t…
Bounded Tourism: Immigrant Politics, Consumption, and Traditions at Plaza Mexico
Conceived and owned by Korean investors, the shopping mall Plaza Mexico in Southern California embodies a unique case of invention and commodification of traditions for locally-bound immigrants and US citizens of Mexican descent, showing the force of the contemporary processes of deterritorialisation and reterritorilisation of identities and the recreations of imagined conceptions of homeland. The Plaza is a unique architectural recreation of Mex…
A Planned City Comes of Age: Rethinking Ciudad Guayana Today
In the 1960s, planners from MIT and Harvard, supported by an interdisciplinary group, were invited by the Venezuelan government to interact with national professionals to create a "growth pole" in the southern part of the country. A city named Ciudad Guayana was founded in 1961. The planning process that followed was extensively documented by this group of American scholars and their counterparts in Venezuela. Probably the strongest critique to t…
Indigenous Women and Violence in Colombia: Agency, Autonomy, and Territoriality
The violence and de/reterritorializing strategies used by armed groups in Colombia disproportionally affect indigenous peoples, especially indigenous women, whose ethno-gender roles, forms of territoriality, agency, and autonomy are being altered. Conflict and new forms of territoriality restrict the satisfaction of ethno-gender-based material needs and interests, with negative impacts on women's own and their families' lives. At the same time, t…
Planning Latin American Cities: Dependencies and “Best Practices
Reflections on the Venezuelan Transition from a Capitalist Representative to a Socialist Participatory Democracy: What Are Planners to Do
Venezuela is experiencing a transitional political process in which the government and the majority of Venezuelans want to move from a capitalist representative democracy to a more socialist participatory democracy. This transition is enmeshed in complexities, contradictions, and political opposition. Reflection on the experience of accompanying neighborhood groups in local decision making in Caracas from 2002 to 2006 suggests that planning pract…
Immigration and integration: Religious and political activism for/with immigrants in Los Angeles
Although the role of religion in the lives of immigrants has recently been a subject of interest by scholars, there has not been much focus on the importance of the religio-political activism of faith-based and community organizations in favour of immigrants. This article focuses on a religious congregation, Immanuel Presbyterian Church, and a community-organizing network, the Salvadoran American National Association, to demonstrate how religion …
Planning Latin American Cities: Housing and Citizenship
Bounded Tourism: Immigrant Politics, Consumption, and Traditions at Plaza Mexico
Conceived and owned by Korean investors, the shopping mall Plaza Mexico in Southern California embodies a unique case of invention and commodification of traditions for locally-bound immigrants and US citizens of Mexican descent, showing the force of the contemporary processes of deterritorialisation and reterritorilisation of identities and the recreations of imagined conceptions of homeland. The Plaza is a unique architectural recreation of Mex…
Trust and Hometown Associations in Haitian Post‐Earthquake Reconstruction
The 7.0 magnitude earthquake on January 12, 2010 in Haiti reawakened in the diaspora a strong sense of purpose to focus efforts beyond family remittances towards regional and national development. Yet Haitian hometown associations ( HHTA s) in the US struggled to establish a strong, organizational structure to respond systematically and effectively to the country's increased post‐earthquake needs. Based on historical analysis, participatory obser…
A Planned City Comes of Age: Rethinking Ciudad Guayana Today
In the 1960s, planners from MIT and Harvard, supported by an interdisciplinary group, were invited by the Venezuelan government to interact with national professionals to create a "growth pole" in the southern part of the country. A city named Ciudad Guayana was founded in 1961. The planning process that followed was extensively documented by this group of American scholars and their counterparts in Venezuela. Probably the strongest critique to t…
Neighbourhoods in the Lead: Grassroots planning for social transformation in post-Katrina New Orleans
Since August 2005 when levee failures after hurricane Katrina destroyed 80% of the city of New Orleans, popular media and local residents alike have frequently used the term ‘citizens’ revolution’ to describe the autonomous grassroots planning process in the post-Katrina city (Nossiter, 2006). Although the phenomenon of grassroots participation has been generally regarded as unprecedented in the history of the city, and perhaps even the nation, t…
Bounded Tourism: Immigrant Politics, Consumption, and Traditions at Plaza Mexico
Conceived and owned by Korean investors, the shopping mall Plaza Mexico in Southern California embodies a unique case of invention and commodification of traditions for locally-bound immigrants and US citizens of Mexican descent, showing the force of the contemporary processes of deterritorialisation and reterritorilisation of identities and the recreations of imagined conceptions of homeland. The Plaza is a unique architectural recreation of Mex…
Ordinary places, extraordinary events: Citizenship, democracy, and public space in Latin America
Reflections on the Venezuelan Transition from a Capitalist Representative to a Socialist Participatory Democracy: What Are Planners to Do
Venezuela is experiencing a transitional political process in which the government and the majority of Venezuelans want to move from a capitalist representative democracy to a more socialist participatory democracy. This transition is enmeshed in complexities, contradictions, and political opposition. Reflection on the experience of accompanying neighborhood groups in local decision making in Caracas from 2002 to 2006 suggests that planning pract…
Immigration and integration: Religious and political activism for/with immigrants in Los Angeles
Although the role of religion in the lives of immigrants has recently been a subject of interest by scholars, there has not been much focus on the importance of the religio-political activism of faith-based and community organizations in favour of immigrants. This article focuses on a religious congregation, Immanuel Presbyterian Church, and a community-organizing network, the Salvadoran American National Association, to demonstrate how religion …
Transbordering Latin Americas: Liminal Places, Cultures, and Powers (T)here
Introduction: What Do We Mean by Transbordering Latin Americas? Clara Irazabal Part I: Gender and Image-Making 1. On the Move: Globalizing Subcultures in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas Stephan Lanz 2. Gender, Transnationalism and Empowerment in Postville, Iowa: Women with Electronic Shackles Gerardo Francisco Sandoval and Luz Hernandez 3. Gang of the Barrio: Invention and Negative Trans-Nationalization of a Latin American Figure of Urbanity Yves Pedraz…
Indigenous Women and Violence in Colombia: Agency, Autonomy, and Territoriality
The violence and de/reterritorializing strategies used by armed groups in Colombia disproportionally affect indigenous peoples, especially indigenous women, whose ethno-gender roles, forms of territoriality, agency, and autonomy are being altered. Conflict and new forms of territoriality restrict the satisfaction of ethno-gender-based material needs and interests, with negative impacts on women's own and their families' lives. At the same time, t…
City Making and Urban Governance in the Americas: Curitiba and Portland
Trust and Hometown Associations in Haitian Post‐Earthquake Reconstruction
The 7.0 magnitude earthquake on January 12, 2010 in Haiti reawakened in the diaspora a strong sense of purpose to focus efforts beyond family remittances towards regional and national development. Yet Haitian hometown associations ( HHTA s) in the US struggled to establish a strong, organizational structure to respond systematically and effectively to the country's increased post‐earthquake needs. Based on historical analysis, participatory obser…
Planning Latin American Cities: Housing and Citizenship
Planning Latin American Cities: Dependencies and “Best Practices
Resisting the neo-liberal neighbourhood’s straitjacket: Relational neighbourhood geographies in Chile and Spain
This article proposes a critical and complex reading of the configuration and reconfiguration of the neighbourhood (barrio) based on a comparative analysis of two case studies in Spain and Chile. Neighbourhood life is assumed to be organised around complex, open and dynamic relationships articulated in different relational geographies and not limited to a restricted space–time frame. We propose the concept of ‘relational neighbourhood geographies…
Latin American Perspectives on the Urban Century: Planning Challenges and Opportunities
Political science (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Latin American Urban Studies (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Latin Americans (4 works) · Economic geography (3 works)