Defending green spaces and transforming urban peripheral communities: A Photovoice Study in Simón Bolívar I, San Juan de Lurigancho

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Abstract

This case analyzes how community leaders navigate environmental challenges at the neighborhood level while retransforming their territory in the defense of the green spaces of Simón Bolívar I, an urban peripheral neighborhood of San Juan de Lurigancho (Lima, Peru), between 2019 and 2024. Through a photovoice method, the central question is “How do community leaders portray and reflect on their own stories about the importance of their green spaces?” Thus, this photovoice study dialogues with Haesbaert’s idea of reterritorialization (territorial reconstruction) to see how community leaders have actively re-transformed their territory in the defense of the green spaces of Simón Bolívar I, and aims to reflect on community actions in conserving and protecting green spaces at the local level

Author

• Jennifer Ponce-Cori, University of Pittsburgh