The neighborhood action beyond the neighborhood: The case of Nou Barris district in Barcelona
The neoecological conception of the neighborhood was adopted in the 1980s by various governments in Europe using the framework of the neoliberal agenda. Assumed in an uncritical way as a privileged (if not unique) scale for urban governance, the idea of the neighborhood has both legitimized and inst...
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oai:ojs.revistas.uchile.cl:article-536182021-08-06T21:50:29Z The neighborhood action beyond the neighborhood: The case of Nou Barris district in Barcelona La acción vecinal más allá del barrio: el caso del distrito Nou Barris en Barcelona Letelier, Francisco Valdosky, Fabiana The neoecological conception of the neighborhood was adopted in the 1980s by various governments in Europe using the framework of the neoliberal agenda. Assumed in an uncritical way as a privileged (if not unique) scale for urban governance, the idea of the neighborhood has both legitimized and institutionalized a fragmented and depoliticized neighborhood action, with little capacity to produce an urban context. From a critical position to this notion of neighborhood and its implicit way of conceiving relations between communities and urban policies, this article proposes a multiscale and political approach of the neighborhood, by applying the concept of geographies of neighborhood action. To illustrate this approach, the case of the district of Nou Barris, in Barcelona, is analyzed, where the actions of the organizations go beyond the limits of the hegemonic notion of the neighborhood, constituting more complex relationships and broader territorialities that seek to influence the urban. It is concluded that the neighborhood action can adopt different ‘geographies’ and constitute new relational configurations not constrained by limiting spatialities. It can scale its fields of action from the immediate residential proximity to the entire city, and play a key role in intermediating between the everyday life and the political system. La concepción neoecológica de barrio fue adoptada en los años 1980 por diversos gobiernos de Europa en el marco de la agenda neoliberal. Asumida de manera acrítica como escala privilegiada (si no única) para la gobernanza urbana, la idea de barrio ha contribuido a legitimar e institucionalizar una acción vecinal fragmentada y despolitizada, con escasa capacidad de producir lo urbano. Desde una posición crítica a esta noción de barrio y su implícita manera de concebir las relaciones entre las comunidades y las políticas urbanas, este artículo propone una aproximación multiescalar y política de lo vecinal, resumida en el concepto de geografías de la acción vecinal. Para ilustrar esta aproximación se analiza el caso del distrito de Nou Barris, en Barcelona, donde la actuación de las organizaciones traspasa los límites de la noción hegemónica de barrio, constituyendo relaciones más complejas y territorialidades más amplias que buscan incidir en lo urbano. Se concluye que la acción vecinal puede adoptar diversas ‘geografías’ y constituir nuevas configuraciones relacionales no constreñidas por espacialidades limitantes. Puede escalar sus ámbitos de actuación desde la proximidad residencial inmediata a la ciudad entera, y desempeñar un rol fundamental al intermediar entre el habitar cotidiano y el sistema político. Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo 2019-12-30 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf audio/mpeg application/epub+zip https://revistaurbanismo.uchile.cl/index.php/RU/article/view/53618 10.5354/0717-5051.2019.53618 Revista de Urbanismo; Núm. 41 (2019): Diciembre Revista de Urbanismo; Núm. 41 (2019): Diciembre 0717-5051 spa https://revistaurbanismo.uchile.cl/index.php/RU/article/view/53618/58830 https://revistaurbanismo.uchile.cl/index.php/RU/article/view/53618/59643 https://revistaurbanismo.uchile.cl/index.php/RU/article/view/53618/60431 Derechos de autor 2019 Revista de Urbanismo |
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The neoecological conception of the neighborhood was adopted in the 1980s by various governments in Europe using the framework of the neoliberal agenda. Assumed in an uncritical way as a privileged (if not unique) scale for urban governance, the idea of the neighborhood has both legitimized and institutionalized a fragmented and depoliticized neighborhood action, with little capacity to produce an urban context. From a critical position to this notion of neighborhood and its implicit way of conceiving relations between communities and urban policies, this article proposes a multiscale and political approach of the neighborhood, by applying the concept of geographies of neighborhood action. To illustrate this approach, the case of the district of Nou Barris, in Barcelona, is analyzed, where the actions of the organizations go beyond the limits of the hegemonic notion of the neighborhood, constituting more complex relationships and broader territorialities that seek to influence the urban. It is concluded that the neighborhood action can adopt different ‘geographies’ and constitute new relational configurations not constrained by limiting spatialities. It can scale its fields of action from the immediate residential proximity to the entire city, and play a key role in intermediating between the everyday life and the political system. |
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