Social Resistances and the Creation of Another Way of Thinking in the Peripheral “Self-Constructed Popular Neighborhoods”

Examples from Mexico, Argentina, and Bolivia

Bibliographic Data

ID13114371
AuthorsPetropoulou Chryssanthi (0000-0001-8144-1382, University of the Aegean, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume2
Issue1
Pages27-27
Publication date2018-03-19
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2413-8851 • E-ISSN: 2413-8851
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/urbansci2010027
OpenAlexW2793479532
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited27

This study refers to urban social movements, creative social resistances, and the collectives that are emerging today in “self-constructed popular neighborhoods” (“barrios de auto-construcción popular” in Latin-American, Spanish bibliography; “quartiers d’auto-construction populaire” in French bibliography and “self-help housing” in Anglophone bibliography), with a special focus on the new characteristics of these movements and the poetics of their daily practices. Firstly, a cartographic approach is explained through the concept of eco-landscapes; a qualitative analysis follows based on interviews and a review of the secondary literature. In particular, this research focuses on cases of movements and collectives in villas in South Greater Buenos Aires, barrios of Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl in the Metropolitan Area of Mexico City, and barrios of El Alto in the Metropolitan Area of La Paz. It shows that the poetics of creative resistances question the symbolic power of territorial stigmatization

Archaeology · Art · Geography · Latin Americans · Media studies · Metropolitan area · Poetics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social movement · Social power · Sociology · Latin American Urban Studies · Law · Public Spaces through Art · Youth Culture and Social Dynamics

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