Understanding Bottom-Up Territories of Culture in Unequal Cities

Autors/ores

  • Claudia Seldin TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4542-0450
  • Caio César de Azevedo Barros FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO
  • Pedro Vítor Costa FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO
  • Victória Michelini FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO

Resum

‘Contestation’ is a term often used to describe various kinds of conflict in 21st-Century urban areas. Yet Urban planning literature lacks a cultural approach to such resistance — an oversight that this paper seeks to redress. We argue that the concept of ‘contested territories of culture’ plays a key role in the informal construction of urban areas, highlighting them as heterogeneous drivers of ‘contestation’ and the fight for rights in Latin America’s inequality-riven cities. The authors use two methodological approaches to define said ‘contestation’: (1) contextual analysis of
the literature on the concept of ‘territories’ to discover their cultural character, and (2) ethnographic analysis of a case study on Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The example of the Realengo Flyover Cultural Center, a cultural appropriation of a leftover site under a flyover on Rio’s outskirts, shows the complexity of improvised, bottom-up squatting through cultural activities. The study reveals the need to understand these territories in order to draw up more equitable public policies and urban plans. It also highlights that such territories are both culturally rich and socially vulnerable.

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Seldin, C. ., de Azevedo Barros, C. C., Vítor Costa, P. and Michelini, V. (2023) “Understanding Bottom-Up Territories of Culture in Unequal Cities”, Debats. Revista de cultura, poder i societat, 2023(8). Available at: https://revistadebats.net/article/view/6415 (Accessed: 3 December 2024).

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