Unsettling Boundaries. Urbanisms of Inclusion in Latin American Cities

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Latin American cities are facing critical social and environmental challenges. This panel focuses on multiple ways in which urban social movements seek taking part in on-going transformations of Latin American cities, as they aspire and build towards more inclusive urban futures. The panel takes an explicit empirical stance, departing from particular case studies and collaborations with social movements as to explore how movements act in distinctive urban sites. The contributions particularly reflect on the role of space and the materiality of social movement’ struggles, that is, how they contribute to the production of urban space and interact with the city’s physical form. The struggles for inclusion that the panel deals with emphasise this way the specificity of popular engagements in discourses and practices of urbanism in Latin America.

Sub Track

• Cities and Urban Studies

Session Organizer

• Jeroen Stevens

Chair

• Jeroen Stevens

Individual Presentations

• The minga as practice of inclusion in the city of Quito - Giulia Testori

• Urban Proto-Projects: Occupying Central São Paulo (Brazil) - Jeroen Stevens

• Constructing landscape through resource extraction in Minas Gerais, Brazil - Patricia C Fernandes, KU Leuven / UFMG

• Implicit landscape urbanism of resource extraction. Mining and the provision of landscape structures and services for the Andean cities of Peru. - Margarita A Macera