10th CEISAL International Conference

Florencia Quesada Avendaño (Puheenjohtaja)
Milián Bernal, D. (Puheenjohtaja)

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Aktiviteetti: Työpajan, paneelin, session tai tutoriaalin järjestäminen

Aikajakso	13 kesäk. 2022 → 15 kesäk. 2022
Tapahtuman tyyppi	Conference
Sijainti	Helsinki, SuomiNäytä kartalla
Tunnustuksen arvo	International

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In the last decades Latin American cities have experienced increased economic and urban inequalities creating highly segregated, fragmented, and unequal urban spaces. However, these unjust processes of urbanisation are constantly challenged throughout the region. Citizens are reclaiming their Right to the City by occupying, appropriating, and transforming the urban space for social, cultural, environmental, and political purposes. Their actions, even if small, confer urban spaces with new meanings and provide the city with new uses in close relationship to community aspirations and needs – especially important in times of crisis, like the current covid-19 pandemic. This paper aims to generate a theoretical discussion about the political character and transformative potential of small-scale socio-spatial urban transformations taking place in Latin America. Building on theoretical emerging debates from scholars working with/in/from the Global South, including Holston’s (spaces of) insurgent citizenship and Miraftab’s insurgent planning practices, our discussion focuses on understanding how the creation of these small-scale, often ephemeral, urban spaces shift the power over the processes of urbanization from institutions and professionals to (a possibly insurgent) political society (Huq) resulting in more just and democratic urban spaces.