Residents' collective strategies of resistance in Global South cities' informal settlements: Space, scale and knowledge

《Residents' collective strategies of resistance in Global South cities' informal settlements: Space, scale and knowledge》

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作者: María José Zapata Campos;Jaan-Henrik Kain;Michael Oloko;Mariano Scheinsohn;Jenny Stenberg;Patrik Zapata

关键字: Compact cities;Densification;Informal settlements;Resistance;Resident associations;Urban movements;Relational sites;Resistance spaces;Insurgent knowledge

作者单位: School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, 610, SE405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden;Dept. of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden;Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology, Kisumu, Kenya;Faculty of Sociology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina;Dept. of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden;School of Public Administration, University of Gothenburg, Sweden;School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, 610, SE405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden;Dept. of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden;Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology, Kisumu, Kenya;Faculty of Sociology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina;Dept. of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden;School of Public Administration, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

摘要: This paper examines the strategies of resistance articulated by residents of informal settlements response to urban exclusion. Building upon resistance and urban social movements literature the paper is informed by the case of the Villa Rodrigo Bueno in Buenos Aires, a self-constructed villa miseria, and its residents' stories of resistance to attempts of evictions and upgrading programs. In the paper we show how resistance is mobilized, first through its simultaneous disconnection, due to its remoteness and isolation; and reconnection to local and global supportive networks. While disconnection facilitated self-construction, densification and the blooming of informal entrepreneurship; reconnection through relational and multiscalar sites enabled unexpected encounters with distant actors that contributed to resist evictions. Second, the long-term learning and development of self-knowledge (i.e. construction, or housing law), embedded in the remoteness of the informal settlement, contributed to shift expertise from city officers to residents; redefining the role of informal residents into active citizens and experts in policy making, and turning informal settlements into settings of wider social change.