Territorial discourses and policies in Latin America
Working Group: Public Policies and Territories
No. 1, May 2017
This newsletter, edited by a collective of experts from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, and Cuba (with researchers from other countries, such as Bolivia and Mozambique, expected to contribute), aims to compile repositories of both the experiences of the "State in action," with its various temporal dimensions at the national, state/provincial, metropolitan, and municipal levels, and the alternative approaches emerging from social movements. These repositories are necessary because the last two decades have seen a growth in social demands linked to political and/or environmental causes. These demands stem from situations of economic inequality associated with segregation and exclusion, as well as from the recognition of the almost always ineffective performance of state institutions in resolving conflicts through public policies created and imposed within a technical-instrumental framework.
Section 1 – Capabilities of Agents and Legal Frameworks
Section 2 – Urban dynamics, regionalizations and shaping
of territories
Section 3 – Political-territorial action of social movements
Section 4 – Activities
