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From Contested Territories to alternatives of development: Learning from Latin America

Descripción del proyecto

Una visión de desarrollo de América Latina

Organizaciones internacionales e intersectoriales de toda Europa y América Latina unirán fuerzas para desarrollar un modelo de base de desarrollo territorial. El proyecto CONTESTED_TERRITORY, financiado con fondos europeos, movilizará la red para realizar una investigación cuyo objetivo es promover la comprensión conceptual y empírica de los modelos ascendentes sostenibles e innovadores para el desarrollo regional. El proyecto estudiará cómo la cultura popular y la visión autóctona del mundo latinoamericanas ayudan a formar la conexión entre la humanidad y el entorno. Los descubrimientos ayudarán a superar las percepciones establecidas sobre el desarrollo y contribuirán a la introducción de estrategias territoriales ascendentes para el desarrollo y patrones diferentes de la cohesión social que respondan mejor a los riesgos, la vulnerabilidad y la exclusión.

Objetivo

The overall objective of CONTESTED_TERRITORY is to form an international and intersectoral network of organisations from across Europe and Latin America on a joint research programme that pursues conceptual and empirical knowledge generation on innovative and sustainable bottom-up models of territorial development. We consider community-led practice enacting alternative knowledge as basis for a productive framework to grasp transformations of space and society supporting local-to-global knowledge diffusion. In particular, the RISE action will deliver novel understandings on how ordinary people produce innovative models for more sustainable and resilient environments. By this, we will learn how they shape, negotiate, imagine and collaboratively manage territories in contested and uneven power relations and how they progress models of social integration.

The participants of the network will exchange and generate new knowledge to surpass mainstream understandings of development and contribute to scientific breakthroughs by integrating bottom-up strategies to adapt to risk, vulnerability and exclusion. Our progress will engage with and contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Agenda from alternative conceptual and practical perspectives. At the same time, we will nurture novel approaches to redefine the relations between humanity and the envi-ronment by including discourses emerging out of Latin American popular culture and indigenous cosmovision. This provides opportunities for academic and non-academic participants to actively shape practice and policies targeting more inclusive territorial development and different models of social cohesion. This will generate significant benefits for societies in Latin America, with transferable out-comes to Europe. Staff members participating in this action will develop new skills; be exposed to inspiring research environments, significantly widening their career perspectives in and beyond academia.

Coordinador

KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 478 400,00
Dirección
KAISERSTRASSE 12
76131 Karlsruhe
Alemania

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Región
Baden-Württemberg Karlsruhe Karlsruhe, Stadtkreis
Tipo de actividad
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Enlaces
Coste total
€ 478 400,00

Participantes (14)

Socios (8)