“Not all spaces are territories”: creating other possible urban worlds in and from Latin America – an interview with Raúl Zibechi
<p>In light of his most prominent book “Territories in Resistance” (Zibechi, 2008), we conducted an interview with the researcher, journalist, and activist Raúl Zibechi. A well-known Uruguayan columnist with various Latin American newspapers, Zibechi was introduced to an English-speaking audie...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Copernicus Publications
2019-03-01
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| Series: | Geographica Helvetica |
| Online Access: | https://www.geogr-helv.net/74/105/2019/gh-74-105-2019.pdf |
| Summary: | <p>In light of his most prominent book “Territories in Resistance”
(Zibechi, 2008), we conducted an interview with the researcher, journalist, and
activist Raúl Zibechi. A well-known Uruguayan columnist with various
Latin American newspapers, Zibechi was introduced to an English-speaking
audience when translations of two of his books were published in 2010 and
2012 (Zibechi, 2010, 2012a). Combining activism and research, he has been working with social
movements throughout Latin America since the 1980s. Socioterritorial
movements, the key concept around which much of Zibechi's work revolves, are
of particular interest for our theme issue “Contested Urban Territories:
Decolonized Perspectives”. Our interview revisits Zibechi's idea of the
emergence of new or other subjects through socioterritorial practices, and in
consequence, of socioterritorial movements as harbingers of possible urban
futures. In this context, the interview also explores links to the writings
of Carlos Walter Porto Gonçalves on “territory”, Henri Lefebvre on
“space”, and Frantz Fanon on “zones of being and non-being”. We
understand a conversation along these lines as a contribution to the ongoing
debate on a decolonialization of knowledge and knowledge production in the
field of urban studies.</p> |
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| ISSN: | 0016-7312 2194-8798 |