Descripción del proyecto
Un estudio antropológico de las formas emergentes de cuidado colectivo
Sin duda, las ciudades sostenibles tienen sentido, ya que proporcionan a sus residentes acceso a numerosos beneficios y una mejor calidad de vida. Sin embargo, los paradigmas verticalistas de regeneración urbana están creando enclaves de privilegio ambiental, lo cual significa que las rentas más bajas y los grupos minoritarios no tienen el mismo acceso a las prestaciones. El equipo del proyecto TAKEBACK, que cuenta con el apoyo de las Acciones Marie Skłodowska-Curie, estudiará las formas en que la sociedad civil y los movimientos sociales responden al reto de crear entornos urbanos más inclusivos, sostenibles y justos. Al analizar la evolución de las trayectorias y las prácticas del cuidado colectivo dentro del activismo, el trabajo del proyecto contribuirá a los debates sobre los cambiantes significados de la ciudadanía urbana en un mundo cada vez más vulnerable.
Objetivo
This project is an anthropological study of emerging forms of collective care at a moment where the interlocking crises of capitalism, democracy, and the environment have become more apparent than ever before. In the Global North, there is an increasing sense of urgency to enhance cities' sustainability. Yet, top-down paradigms of urban regeneration can contribute creating enclaves of environmental privilege, thereby excluding lower income and minority groups from their benefits. Much recent scholarly debate has focused on the multiple effects of evictions and displacements, as well as on active practices of resistance. But what happens if, after years of protests, grassroots groups become the main actors in processes of collective re-appropriation and management of urban spaces?
TAKEBACK is based on an ethnographic study of collective reappropriations of vacant ex-industrial buildings, retrieved from top-down reconversion by activists and local residents in Montreal, Canada. By going beyond a view of social movements as bounded and organised entities, it explores the understudied topic of the “afterlives of a movement”, namely what happens when a heterogeneous political collective reaches some of its goals and, thus, changes shape, ambitions, and setting. It examines evolving trajectories and practices of collective care within activism, in order to contribute to debates on the shifting meanings of urban citizenship in an increasingly vulnerable world.
TAKEBACK will allow me to gain new knowledge in the areas of urban geography and visual ethnography, to combine this with my previous expertise in political anthropology and ethnographic research, and to further my career prospects with a book monograph as major output of the fellowship. The project also speaks directly to EU missions directed at supporting the European Green Deal and Just Transition Mechanism.
Ámbito científico
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical transitionsrevolutions
- social sciencespolitical sciencesgovernment systemsdemocracy
- social sciencessociologyanthropologysocial anthropology
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-GF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global FellowshipsCoordinador
10129 Torino
Italia