The right to the city in the face of current challenges
The call for submissions for Working Paper #2, "The right to the city in the face of current challenges," is now open, with a deadline of February 26, 2021, for contributions.
With the aim of continuing and deepening the debates and proposals collected in Working Paper #1 “Multiple perspectives to renew an urban agenda in crisis”, the CLACSO Working Group on Urban Inequalities and the Global Platform for the Right to the City join together to launch this open call for contributions for Working Paper #2.
Editorial guidelines
We request submissions of easily readable texts for an audience not necessarily specialized in the subject matter; in Word format, between 2.500 and 3.500 words in length, in Spanish or Portuguese, depending on the original language; authored individually or collectively, and preferably unpublished. It is recommended to accompany the text with photographs and links to videos or other available resources.
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CLACSO and GPR2C Editorial Team: Luis Bonilla Ortiz-Arrieta (GPR2C and CLACSO) – Manuel Dammert (CLACSO) – Pablo Vommaro (CLACSO) – Rodrigo Faria G. Iacovini (GPR2C) – Lorena Zárate (GPR2C)
Organized by: CLACSO – Global Platform for the Right to the City – CLACSO Working Group on Urban Inequalities
Open call for the Work Course #2: Heading to the city with two current challenges
Seeking to provide continuity and deepen debates and proposals Workbook #1 “Multiple olhars to renew an urban agenda in crisis”, the CLACSO Working Group on Urban Inequalities and the Global Platform for the City are launching together this open call for contributions to the Workbook #2 “The road to the city with two current challenges”.
Motivation and context
More than fifty years ago, the city has been an urban paradigm in movement, nourished by both academic contributions and the mobilization and demands of organizations and communities around the world. The redistribution of two good materials goes side by side with the democratization of decision-making, in a city project that emphasizes its character as a political community and socio-ecological territory whose dynamics cannot be limited to the administrative sphere. A notion of citizenship revisited, which implies detaching it from nationality status to connect it to access to rights and opportunities for a dignified life.
Since the Statute of the City of Brazil (2001), or the World Charter for the City (2005), passing through the Constituição do Equador (2008) and the Constituição da Cidade do México (2017), or directly to the city currently has extensive reconfirmation in national legal frameworks and located in different countries of the region. In turn, its inclusion in the New Urban Agenda (2016) was, together with the Sustainable Development Objectives (2015) and the Paris Agreement (2015), an important framework to give continuity to the commitments assumed by world governments to address the deep causes of social inequalities, urban segregation and climate change. No entanto, two years of fate exist, half doubtful, a long road to be taken; e, as the urban space, or directly to the city is also a disputed concept.
The multiple health, social, political, economic, climatic and environmental crises are felt strongly in Latin America. The regressions in the direction of authoritarian practices and discourses that seek to make racism, misogyny and LGBT+phobia as structural problems in our societies are worrying. The context of a global pandemic accentuates the challenges, but also points to the priorities and possibilities for the immediate future. The unprecedented emergency situation triggered by COVID-19 shows the interdependence and vulnerability of life, indicating the urgency of rethinking our cities and territories from a scale of greater proximity and an ethics of care. This framework, the role of communities and the public becomes critical to advance in strategies of solidarity and multi-scale collaboration in the direction of more equitable, democratic and sustainable horizons.
Main goal
It provides political and social perspectives to advance the realization of city goals in Latin America from the perspective of urban inequalities, bringing together reflections that provide practical inputs to be used in awareness, training and advocacy initiatives by interested actors and organizations.
Objetiva-se, então, um Caderno que gathers analyses, depoimentos and proposals coming from diverse voices and in different formats, in order to give account of two current debates on the direct à cidade within and fora of academia.
Specific objectives
- Position the direction of the city as a multidimensional paradigm capable of guiding responses to the structural challenges of Latin American cities, their rural environment and their general ecosystem.
- Identify alternatives and processes with the potential to promote more equitable, democratic and sustainable cities, rather than diagnose the limitations of urban policies and dynamics.
- Expand the articulations of city direction with the feminist, anti-racist, LGBT+ and indigenous agendas.
Guiding questions for contributions
- Or what directly to the city contributes to addressing and working on general urban issues? And about urban inequalities in particular?
- What is the relevance of the two principles and guidelines offered directly to the city to confront the multiple current crises (health, social, political, economic and environmental)?
- How to face the most relevant challenges that arise for its implementation at the local, national and/or regional level?
- How to take advantage of the opportunities and confront the limitations that exist to deepen the feminist, anti-racist, LGBT+ and indigenous contents in the current city agenda?
Editorial guidelines
Request the sending of easy-to-read texts for a non-necessarily specialized audience; in Word format, with length between 2.500 and 3.500 words, in Spanish or Portuguese, second or native language; of individual or collective authorship, and preferably unpublished. It is recommended to accompany the text with photos and links to videos or other available resources.
Deadline for sending contributions: February 26, 2021
Send to: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
CLACSO and GPR2C editorial team:
Luis Bonilla Ortiz-Arrieta (GPR2C and CLACSO) – Manuel Dammert (CLACSO) – Pablo Vommaro (CLACSO) – Rodrigo Faria G. Iacovini (GPR2C) – Lorena Zárate (GPR2C)
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