Project description
A developmental view from Latin America
International and intersectoral organisations from across Europe and Latin America will join forces to develop a grassroots model of territorial development. The EU-funded CONTESTED_TERRITORY project will mobilise the network to conduct research aimed to boost conceptual and empirical understanding of innovative and sustainable bottom-up paragons for regional development. The project will examine how Latin American popular culture and indigenous vision of the world help shape the connection between humanity and the environment. The findings will help outstrip established perceptions of development and contribute to the introduction of territorial bottom-up strategies for development and different patterns of social cohesion that are better responsive to risk, vulnerability and exclusion.
Objective
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.
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76131 Karlsruhe
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Participants (14)
S10 2TN Sheffield
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28049 Madrid
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20133 Milano
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11802 Curridabat
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75794 Paris
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13572 Marseille
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78462 Konstanz
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28017 Madrid
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1150-037 Lisboa
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08007 BARCELONA
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LS2 9JT Leeds
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10623 Berlin
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NE1 7RU Newcastle Upon Tyne
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04109 Leipzig
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Partners (8)
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1053 Buenos Aires
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10 Santiago
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Temuco
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N/A LA PAZ
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571 Bogota
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C1425FQB Buenos Aires
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1085 Ciudad Autónoma De Buenos Aires
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8500 Viedma
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