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ResumenEn este artículo exploraremos la gestión contemporánea del espacio público, centrándonos en las políticas urbanas punitivas, disuasorias y preventivas, como mecanismos facilitadores de procesos de exclusión y segregación urbana. Analizaremos ciertas tendencias de control, regulación y vigilancia que están sufriendo los espacios públicos de las ciudades contemporáneas, para la reapropiación capitalista de zonas centrales de la ciudad y sus efectos sobre el desplazamiento de la población más vulnerable. Esta perspectiva nos ayudará a comprender las prácticas distintivas que en el espacio público se desarrollan a través de la disciplina, la seguridad y el biopoder. En particular, nos proponemos interpretar las políticas securitarias aplicadas sobre el espacio público, a través de los conceptos de gubernamentalidad, biopolítica y sus dispositivos, en el sentido dado por Foucault y Agamben, principalmente.Palabras clave: Espacio público, dispositivo, gubernamentalidad, desplazamiento, biopolítica, exclusión AbstractThe present paper explores the contemporary management of public space, focusing on the punitive and deterrent mechanisms that facilitate processes of exclusion and urban segregation. It analyzes certain control, regulatory and supervision trends in public spaces, which lead capitalist reappropriation of inner city and its effects on displacement of vulnerable population. This perspective helps us to understand the distinctive practices that are developed in public space through discipline, security and biopower. The securitization applied on public space will be interpreted in this paper through the concepts of governmentality, biopolitics and their devices, mainly based on Foucault´s and Agamben´s approaches.Keywords: Public space, dispositive, governmentality, displacement, biopolitics, exclusion

UID/SOC/04647/2019 CEECIND/01171/2017 ; The Great Recession (2008-2014) and the consequent crisis of both national financial and production system have led the Portuguese administration to adopt tourism and urban rehabilitation as new pivotal sectors to overcome critical crisis-derived impacts on the economy and society. This has involved profound urban and social changes in the central historical quarters of Lisbon. In this sense, the historical quarter of Alfama in Lisbon has recently become the most important urban hotspot in the country for local and transnational real estate investors. By focusing on this historic quarter of Lisbon, this paper examines how recent processes of touristification and Airbnbisation in Alfama have disrupted processes of gentrification and studentification that took place in the quarter since the late 1990s and early 2000s. The paper concludes by suggesting that both urban touristification and Airbnbisation of Alfama emerge today as the most aggressive form of urban accumulation by dispossession and spatial displacement against not only lower classes but also earlier gentrifiers of the quarter. ; publishersversion ; published

The Great Recession (2008-2014) and the consequent crisis of both national financial and production system have led the Portuguese administration to adopt tourism and urban rehabilitation as new pivotal sectors to overcome critical crisis-derived impacts on the economy and society. This has involved profound urban and social changes in the central historical quarters of Lisbon. In this sense, the historical quarter of Alfama in Lisbon has recently become the most important urban hotspot in the country for local and transnational real estate investors. By focusing on this historic quarter of Lisbon, this paper examines how recent processes of touristification and Airbnbisation in Alfama have disrupted processes of gentrification and studentification that took place in the quarter since the late 1990s and early 2000s. The paper concludes by suggesting that both urban touristification and Airbnbisation of Alfama emerge today as the most aggressive form of urban accumulation by dispossession and spatial displacement against not only lower classes but also earlier gentrifiers of the quarter. ; Como respuesta a la Gran Recesión (2008-2014) y la consecuente crisis del sistema financiero y de producción nacional, la administración portuguesa adoptó a inicios de esta década el turismo y la rehabilitación urbana como nuevos sectores fundamentales para superar los diferentes impactos socioeconómicos derivados de esta última crisis. Ello ha conllevado procesos de fuerte transformación urbana y social de los barrios históricos de Lisboa. El barrio de Alfama, en el centro de la capital lusa, se ha visto recientemente transformado en una nueva arena financiera glocal para la ejecución de operaciones de especulación inmobiliaria de inversores locales y transnacionales. Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar la reciente expansión de la turistificación en el Alfama y cómo este nuevo proceso urbano ha interrumpido defacto los procesos de gentrificación y estudentificación iniciados desde finales de los 90s e inicios de la ...

The recent and rapid expansion of touristification offers some critical factors that have fueled the local indignation and local resistance within the 'tourist city'. These protests are very focused on the negative impacts of touristification on the local real estate market, on the construction of the city for the monoculture of tourism, on the evictions of families from touristized neighborhoods and on the deterioration of neighborhood coexistence. In this way, different local actors and social groups show a range of non-linear histories and diverse discourses about the impacts of the recent and rapid expansion of urban (in) formal tourism in their local communities. In this article, in the first place, we analyze the expansion of Airbnb in the city of Madrid. The results reflect that the Airbnb market in the city of Madrid is controlled by professional actors who do not comply with the principles of the sharing economy. Its activity is based on taking advantage of the "rent gaps" generated by Airbnb and expanding real estate income by transforming residential housing into short-term rentals for tourists, which drives up touristification processes. This process is generating discomfort among citizens and is giving rise to new resistances against the touristization of the city. In second place, the article analyzes the social responses that are taking place against the recent urban touristification that has taken place in the center of the city of Madrid, paying special attention to the variety of political actors, strategies and collective actions in the center of Madrid over the past years. This article seeks to analyze how touristification is expanding through Airbnb, and to offer an analysis of the approach with which urban social movements fight for an inclusive urban coexistence in the complex 'tourist city'. ; La reciente y veloz expansión de la turistificación ofrece algunos factores críticos que han alimentado la indignación vecinal y la resistencia local dentro de la 'ciudad turistística'. Estas protestas están muy centradas en los impactos negativos de la turistificación en el mercado inmobiliario local, en la construcción de la ciudad para el monocultivo del turismo, en la expulsión de familias de barrios turistificados y en el deterioro de la convivencia vecinal. De este modo, diferentes actores locales y grupos sociales muestran un abanico de historias no lineales y discursos diversos sobre los impactos de la reciente y veloz expansión del turismo urbano (in)formal en sus comunidades locales. En este artículo, en primer lugar, se analiza el desarrollo de la actividad de Airbnb en la ciudad de Madrid. Los resultados reflejan que el mercado de Airbnb en la ciudad de Madrid está controlado por actores profesionales que no cumplen los principios de la economía colaborativa. Su actividad se basa en aprovechar los "rent gaps" que genera Airbnb y ampliar las rentas inmobiliarias por medio de sustituir vivienda residencial en vivienda para turísticas, lo que impulsa los procesos de turistificación. Este proceso está generando malestar entre los ciudadanos y está dando lugar a nuevas resistencias contra la turistización de la ciudad. En segundo lugar, el artículo analiza las respuestas sociales que se está dando a la reciente turistificación urbana que ha tenido lugar en el centro de la ciudad de Madrid, prestando especial atención a la variedad de actores políticos, de estrategias y de acción colectiva en el centro de Madrid a lo largo de los últimos años. Este artículo busca por tanto analizar cómo se desarrolla la turistificación a través de Airbnb, para después ofrecer un análisis del enfoque con que los movimientos sociales urbanos luchan por una coexistencia urbana inclusiva en la compleja 'ciudad turística'.The recent and rapid expansion of touristification offers some critical factors that have fueled the local indignation and local resistance within the 'tourist city'. These protests are very focused on the negative impacts of touristification on the local real estate market, on the construction of the city for the monoculture of tourism, on the evictions of families from touristized neighborhoods and on the deterioration of neighborhood coexistence. In this way, different local actors and social groups show a range of non-linear histories and diverse discourses about the impacts of the recent and rapid expansion of urban (in) formal tourism in their local communities. In this article, in the first place, we analyze the expansion of Airbnb in the city of Madrid. The results reflect that the Airbnb market in the city of Madrid is controlled by professional actors who do not comply with the principles of the sharing economy. Its activity is based on taking advantage of the "rent gaps" generated by Airbnb and expanding real estate income by transforming residential housing into short-term rentals for tourists, which drives up touristification processes. This process is generating discomfort among citizens and is giving rise to new resistances against the touristization of the city. In second place, the article analyzes the social responses that are taking place against the recent urban touristification that has taken place in the center of the city of Madrid, paying special attention to the variety of political actors, strategies and collective actions in the center of Madrid over the past years. This article seeks to analyze how touristification is expanding through Airbnb, and to offer an analysis of the approach with which urban social movements fight for an inclusive urban coexistence in the complex 'tourist city'.

The radical conquest of public space and its transformation into political spacehave introduced major alterations of the Spanish public sphere after the outbreak of the 15-Mmovement. Such modifications refer also to a topic of symbolical interest, which is the conceptionand configuration of urban space – a space that in the course of neoliberal urbanproduction has been characterized as a residual category and a place of controlled and profitorientedactivities. By analysing key practices of the protest movement, the article brings togetherdebates from critical urban geography and political theory. In a first step, it develops aconceptual perspective towards the multiple logics of neoliberal urbanism and the transformationof public space. Subsequently, counter-hegemonic spatial politics and urban demandswill be discussed through the conceptualization of protest as acts of citizenship, proclaimingthe construction of the public sphere and public space via strategic disobedience and thetransgression of rules and laws. Protest camps, public political assemblies and recent squattingcan be analysed as newly created spaces of citizenship that reconstruct the meaning of publicspace and of a political and politicised public sphere, claiming different ways of policy making.

The profound economic, social and political reforms in contemporary migration societies are seriously tackling the scope of civil, social and political rights of citizenship. In this article, we refer to the concept of citizenship through four dimensions that enlarge its theoretical content and transcend the historical rationality of rights, duties and the State: (a) citizenship as a collective subject that is being permeated by (neoliberal) logics of producing urban spaces; (b) citizenship as a power relation expressed by politics of scale; (c) citizenship as a discursive mechanism that articulates identity and place through politics of belonging; and (d) citizenship interpreted through acts that challenge the multiple dimensions of domination. This conceptualisation helps to outline the conceptualisation of acts of citizenship that demand a re-appropriation of public space and, in general terms, the public sphere, aiming at constructing new spaces of citizenship. ; Las profundas reformas en las condiciones económicas, sociales y políticas actuales están afectando gravemente el alcance de los derechos civiles, sociales y políticos de la ciudadanía. Un concepto, el de ciudadanía, que es atravesado por las lógicas neoliberales de producción del espacio público así como por la lógica histórica Derecho- Deber-Estado. Pero este mismo concepto de diudadanía puede ser analizado desde tres novedosos aspectos teóricos que amplíen su dimensión y superen los anteriores: (a) la ciudadanía como una relación de poder que se expresa mediante políticas de escala; (b) la ciudadanía como mecanismo discursivo que articula identidad y lugar a través de las políticas de pertenencia; y, (c) la ciudadanía interpretada a través de actos que desafían las múltiples relaciones de dominación. Estas tres dimensiones nos ayudarán a comprender los actos de ciudadanía que demandan la reapropiación de la esfera y del espacio público con el fin de construir nuevos espacios de ciudadanía.

The radical conquest of public space and its transformation into political space have introduced major alterations of the Spanish public sphere after the outbreak of the 15-M movement. Such modifications refer also to a topic of symbolical interest, which is the conception and configuration of urban space -- a space that in the course of neoliberal urban production has been characterized as a residual category and a place of controlled and profit-oriented activities. By analysing key practices of the protest movement, the article brings together debates from critical urban geography and political theory. In a first step, it develops a conceptual perspective towards the multiple logics of neoliberal urbanism and the transformation of public space. Subsequently, counter-hegemonic spatial politics and urban demands will be discussed through the conceptualization of protest as acts of citizenship, proclaiming the construction of the public sphere and public space via strategic disobedience and the transgression of rules and laws. Protest camps, public political assemblies and recent squatting can be analysed as newly created spaces of citizenship that reconstruct the meaning of public space and of a political and politicised public sphere, claiming different ways of policy making. Adapted from the source document.

AbstractMajor social and political transformations such as the shift towards neoliberal urban policies have widely altered the contemporary structuring of metropolitan areas in Spain and Latin America. One key consequence is the recapture of city centres by wealthy tenants and the eviction of poorer households, a phenomenon usually designated by the term gentrification. In comparison to the comprehensive documentation of gentrification in the Anglophone environment, few scholars have paid attention to this phenomenon in this area of the world so far. This article responds to this gap, providing an exhaustive revision of the debates about gentrification occurring in Spain and Latin America during the last decade and tracking two theoretical motivations. First, it stresses the necessity of characterizing gentrification discourses in Spain and Latin America, preparing a conceptual appropriation and contextualization of the term itself. Second, it confirms that gentrification in Spain and Latin America varies substantially from processes observed in the Anglophone world. As a result, the review develops insights into emancipating and challenging debates that remain useful for the mainstream gentrification discourse too. Addressing this, it proposes a reconsideration and repoliticization of gentrification through the territorial and linguistic lens of Spanish and Latin American researchers.