FP7Обмен на изследователи2012–2016

CONTESTED_CITIES · Contested Spatialities of Urban Neoliberalism: Dialogues between Emerging Spaces of Citizenship in Europe and Latin America

7РП — „Хора“ (Действия „Мария Кюри“)

Период: 2012-10-01 → 2016-09-30
Финансиране от ЕС: 793 800 €
Участници: 2
Схема: MC-IRSES

Линиите свързват координатора с партньорите.

Накратко на български

Процесите на джентрификация и борбите за достъпно жилищно устройство в градове в Европа и Латинска Америка са в центъра на анализа. Това помага за по-доброто разбиране на градската политика и влиянието ѝ върху правото на гражданите върху града.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Contested Spatialities of Urban Neoliberalism: Dialogues between Emerging Spaces of Citizenship in Europe and Latin America

CONTESTED_CITIES (FP7-PEOPLE-PIRSES-GA-2012-318944) was a scientific exchange and research programme amongst the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), the University of Leeds (UK) and six Latin American partner universities from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico, lasting from October 2012 to September 2016. It addressed the field of critical urban studies and focused on comparative research on the variegated processes of gentrification in Europe and Latin America, as well as on contestation against contemporary ‘neoliberal’ urban politics, with a special focus on struggles for adequate housing and the right to the city. CONTESTED_CITIES triggered special attention to the production of socially and politically relevant knowledge, by bringing together scientific debates with the discourses of policy makers and those arising from urban social movements. It pursued the implementation of visual methodologies as a tool to socialise the findings of urban research beyond academia. Moreover, it contributed to the dissemination of science via Internet and social media, motivating critical reflections upon urban policies in, but also beyond the participating cities and countries. CONTESTED_CITIES published 44 journal publications, high impact factor articles and participations in edited volumes and other independent publications, as well as five Working Paper Series with more than 340 single articles. It created a network of practitioners, academics and social movements who widely interact through social media such as Facebook and Twitter. Its website and social media accounts have become a reference for scholars who are interested in gentrification, displacement and urban contestation.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Neoliberal ideologies applied in city politics can be portrayed as key aspects for the progressive and often conflictive transformations of urban space today. Such transformations do not exclusively apply to the political sphere – neoliberalism has also affected the habits of how people imagine, perceive and appropriate urban spaces in their daily life. Cities play a strategic role in the variegated geographies of neoliberalism, but relatively little research critically assessed the challenges citizenship faces in neoliberal societies. The interdisciplinary exchange programme CONTESTED_CITIES will tackle this gap – it investigates the discourses and practices of contest and re-appropriation of urban space, thus providing a novel understanding of how opposition against neoliberal urban development is being re-framed in the course of the current financial and economic crisis. It will bring together scientists from European and Latin American universities to discuss some of the striking consequences of urban neoliberalism and the resistance originated in different geographical backgrounds. By applying innovative qualitative methodologies such as reflexive photography and other visual accounts, the project aims at providing theoretical advances within citizenship studies and urban geography as well as at producing new empirical insights to the consequences of recent urban policies. Within an interdisciplinary network to analyse and compare urban policies, gentrification and contestation in Europe and Latin America, the exchange programme creates additionally the conditions to introduce policy transfer by learning from Latin American cities - which have experienced for decades urban conflict and highly innovative urban solutions - as laboratories of social change, and to create a theoretical background that overcomes existing lacunas between urban debates in the English, and the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking literature.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MADRID · MadridКоординаторИспания
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS · LeedsОбединеното кралство