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This article offers a detailed analysis of key urban processes that have been consolidated in different Latin American cities over the XXI century; they fundamentally consist of a reconquest of central and peri-central areas by real estate capital. The metamorphosis of the consolidated city has become apparent thanks to the regular use of three central terms: gentrification, displacement and dispossession. Through the conceptualization of the notion of displacement as a material, political, symbolic and psychological process, this paper builds a theoretical understanding of the phenomena that lead to the displacement of popular subjectivities from the central and peri-central areas of Latin American cities. Such a premise is used to comparatively analyze the situation of five cities –Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago and Quito– and categorize the different displacement and dispossession processes. This discussion also analyzes the meaning of territorial reconfiguration in relation to spatial injustice and the discourses on the "Right to the City", thus providing a political understanding of the 21st century key urban processes. ; Este artículo aporta una comprensión pormenorizada de los procesos urbanos claves que se han ido perpetuando en las ciudades latinoamericanas durante los primeros tres lustros del siglo XXI y que consisten en la reconquista de las áreas centrales y peri-centrales por parte del capital inmobiliario. Esta metamorfosis de la ciudad consolidada se ha manifestado a partir del uso habitual de tres términos centrales: gentrificación, desplazamiento y desposesión. Basándose en una conceptualización del desplazamiento como proceso material, político, simbólico y psicológico, se irá fomentando una comprensión teórica de los procesos que conllevan al desplazamiento de las subjetividades populares de las áreas centrales y peri-centrales de las ciudades latinoamericanas. A partir de un análisis comparativista desarrollado en cinco ciudades –Ciudad de México, Buenos Aires, Río de ...

The city region of Madrid can be considered as an exponent of the striking contradictions associated with the contemporary market-oriented production of housing. Given the increasing economic constraints of many ­middle- and working-class households because of the crisis, property values have been declining for practically seven years now, and tens of thousands of households have been evicted from their homes because they were unable to pay back their mortgages. Simultaneously, since the outbreak of the indignados movement in May 2011, a contestation of the structural forces ruling the real estate sector has been taking place, and questions about the right of housing became a prominent part of the public debate in an increasingly politicised society. Alongside the background of literature about the post-political city and subversive citizenship, this article pursues three key aims: It analyses the consequences of the persistent crisis with a special focus on the residential housing market in Madrid. Secondly, an analysis of the new social and political dynamics that have been emerging during the crisis is developed. Finally, it pinpoints to the way how the emergence of new actors within contemporary housing struggles has been shifting the social and political discourses in this political arena. Such an approach brings together discussions from the field of Political Science with the new geographies of contested crisis urbanism that relate to debates about the social construction of the city, citizenship and disobedience.

"In Teilen Lateinamerikas erfolgt seit einigen Jahren eine rasch expandierende Form der internationalen Migration, die sich als Ausdruck des globalen Zeitalters interpretieren lässt. Hierbei handelt es sich um überwiegend ältere Nordamerikaner, die zur Maximierung ihres persönlichen Lebensstils auswandern, v. a. nach Mexiko, Costa Rica und Panama. Nachfolgend werden zentrale Charakteristika dieser bislang kaum thematisierten Bevölkerungswanderung aus einer konzeptionellen Perspektive diskutiert, welche diese nicht nur als eine rationale Entscheidung autonomer Subjekte betrachtet, sondern auch als Konsequenz der globalisierten Moderne und neoliberaler Stadtentwicklung interpretiert. Anhand des Beispiels der Zuwanderungsregion Guanacaste (Costa Rica) werden dabei sowohl Governance-Strukturen als auch die Konsequenzen der öffentlich-privaten Koalitionen für städtische und regionale Entwicklungsprozesse dargestellt." (Autorenreferat)

Local politics can be evaluated as an outstanding field of negotiation and social exchange that emblematize the deep transformations of the Spanish society due to the massive migration processes of the last decade. This article debates the magnitude of political change that was introduced by granting immigrants (mainly EU citizen) with active and passive voting rights, analyzing empirically observed forms of political participation at the Mediterranean coastal areas. This analysis is conceptually framed through the debate of two theoretical notions, namely the role European citizenship and European Identity play for the transformation of local politics. Both ideas are conceptualized and empirically debated as practices of EU rights and capacities formed by collective action that refers to the "Idea" of Europe. ; La política local es un campo de negociación e intercambio social en el cual se perciben de forma destacada las profundas transformaciones que la sociedad española vivió a partir de los procesos masivos de inmigración de la última década. Este texto debatirá, a través de un análisis empírico de las formas de participación política en la costa mediterránea, qué alcance y magnitud de cambio introduce el derecho de voto activo y pasivo de extranjeros comunitarios. Para ese análisis, se efectúa un enlace conceptual entre la participación política a nivel local y algunas nociones teóricas como la ciudadanía europea. Los dos conceptos claves del debate, es decir, la ciudadanía europea y las referencias a identidades europeas, se piensan como una práctica diaria que se expresa activamente en cuestiones de índole político a nivel local.

Amenity-oriented migration of mainly retired North Americans to destinations in Latin America is a relatively new but rapidly expanding mobility that, amongst others, induces an interesting array of political claims and practices. Unlike economic migrants, the predominantly wealthy and often economically successful amenity migrants possess resources to participate in local and regional development; additionally, they have the know-how to initiate and activate political networks. The article discusses recent trends of lifestyle-oriented mobilities to Latin America and aims at developing a conceptual framework to analyse the role foreigners can play in the negotiation of strategies for local and regional development. Regime analysis, a particular way to conceive governance, is used as a tool to consider the possibilities and problems arising from lifestyle mobilities to Latin America, as specified through the empirical debate regarding planning conflicts in a recently established retirement destination in northern Costa Rica. ; Peer reviewed

"Lifestyle Migration and Residential Tourism represent a major trend in individualized societies worldwide, which is attracting a rapidly growing interest from the academic community. This volume for the first time, critically analyses the spatial, social and political consequences of such leisure-oriented mobilities and migrations. The book approaches the topic from a multidisciplinary and international perspective, unifying different branches of research, such as lifestyle migration, amenity migration, retirement migration, and second home tourism. By covering a variety of regions and landscapes such as mountain and coastal areas, rural and inland communities this volume productively engages with the formal and analytical variations of the phenomenon resulting in an enriching debate at the intersection of different areas of research. Amongst others, topics like political contest and civic participation of lifestyle migrants, their impacts on local communities, social tensions and inequalities induced by the phenomenon, as well as modes of transnational living, home and belonging will be thoroughly explored. This thought provoking volume will provide deep analytical and conceptual insights into the contested geographies of lifestyle migration and further knowledge into the spatial, social and political consequences of leisure-oriented mobilities. It will be valuable reading for students, researchers and academics from a plethora of academic disciplines"--

Local politics in Spain has triggered iconic shifts over the last few years, and the electoral success of new 'movement parties' in particular has dramatically challenged the political establishment. Between 2015 and 2019, many municipalities – including, crucially, the two biggest cities, Madrid and Barcelona – were governed by coalitions originating from anti-austerity, anti-eviction and pro-democracy struggles. This has significantly affected hegemonic and widely normalised discourses supporting the neoliberalisation of urban politics, and to some extent has also prompted novel governance approaches. Based on empirical research undertaken with local councillors, officials, consultants and activists, the article develops an in-depth analysis of governance transformations in the Spanish capital of Madrid. By doing so, it evaluates the ambiguities and contradictions that the government coalition Ahora Madrid was facing during the 2015–2019 legislative term. The debate stimulates critical reflections for academics, practitioners and movements on the transformative capacities that new municipalisms may enact, as well as the constraints faced by established multi-level urban governance regimes. ; This research was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under the Grant number CSO2015-68314-P

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.