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On So-Called Nonpolitical Urban Environmentalism : The Architecture of the Open City, Politics, and the Political -- Refashioning Latin Americanism : The Foundations of the Environmental Urbanism of the Open City -- The Eruption of the Political? : Politics, the Political, Hospitality, and the Foundation of the Open City -- Thinking Otherwise : Keeping the Open City Open in the Dictatorship -- On Subaltern Historiography : Thinking the Open City Historically -- Towards a Decolonial Environmentalism : The Limits and Openings of the Open City's Environmental Urbanisms -- Socialities, New Openings and the Lingering Question of Capital.

This article makes a triple intervention into discussions about the relationship between subaltern collective memory, urban historiography and urban social movements. First, and more theoretically, I argue that grassroots urban social movements require a corresponding history to unite people into a collective urban social agent. In short, there are no urban social movements without a shared urban history to bring them together. The cultural struggle over defining a city's urban meaning is waged not only by material political fights, but also over how we represent the past of our cities. Second, I argue that ruling urban classes circulate and popularize their own urban history in order to disrupt autonomous grassroots urban history formation. Third, and lastly, said historiographical struggle manifests itself in how we represent the pasts of Indigenous peoples in the cities of the Americas. I make this argument through a critical reading of Nona Fernández's representation of the Indigenous past of Santiago de Chile in her 2002 novel Mapocho.

Recent criticisms of regionalization and urbanization in the Anthropocene have argued that actors are increasingly producing uninhabitable spaces, in which oppressed and marginalized groups are either left to die or forced into a rootless existence of constant displacement. Through an examination of the cultural politics of current discussions of uninhabitability in the Anthropocene, this article argues against the logic of un/inhabitability—demonstrating its necessity to imagine itself against a subhuman other that was embodied, at least in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in the anti-Semitic representation of Jews—and proposes that the conceptual framework of in/hospitability can be substituted in a way that both maintains the logic of un/inhabitability's beneficial aspects—its illumination of the inequitable distribution of environmental harms in the Anthropocene and of the relationship between cultural formations and dwelling—and abandons its problematic underpinnings. In this way, the embrace of in/hospitability recommends not a rejection of the logic of un/inhabitability but its development through productive critique.

This article tracks the function of Latin American constitutionalism with a particular concentration on the history of Chilean constitutionalism, to determinate the general inability to establish a representative constitution. Through an interdisciplinary Gramscian methodology based on cultural and legal studies, we propose that the function of a constitution is to institutionalize the perspective of the dominant class and thus establish its hegemony. Therefore, it is argued that the existence of representativity in a constitution, one that symbolizes the different social groups in it, is a fiction when one takes into account the general Latin American experience (as demonstrated in the example of Chile), since the hegemony of a dominant class has simply been perpetuated to the detriment of the subaltern.