Lefebvre-Freire 1968 connections
Crossing the right to the city with the Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21576348 |
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| Authors | Francesco Biagi (0000-0003-3733-2706, University of Lisbon) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Pages | 39-50 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Forum Sociológico (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0872-8380 • E-ISSN: 2182-7427 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/14ri7 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
This article aims to highlight some connections and ties in the work of Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) with the thought of Paulo Freire (1921-1997).I intend to explain a pedagogical path that can be defined for the socio-political proposal around the notion of the "right to the city". The two authors share, firstly, the same publication date (1968) for their two most famous works (i.e., The Right to the City and Pedagogy of Oppressed), and, secondly, the fact that they draw on the same Marxist culture, but both rework the legacy of Marx and Engels in a very creative, original way, outside the determinist orthodoxy that has spanned the last century. Against a certain kind of Marxist Scholasticism that presents itself as unquestionable truth of faith, Lefebvre rededicates Marxism in the urban field and Freire in the well-known Pedagogy of the Oppressed. From their differing viewpoints, the two authors converge in their shared commitment to formulating a theory that aligns with the goal of transforming the world and of enacting emancipative social processes with a clear, democratic-radical political project
| Highly cited | No |
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