Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

Studies on extractivism have focused their attention on rural spaces, analyzing the specific sites where the extraction of primary goods takes place and establishing an exclusive association between extractive activities and rurality. Likewise, in the formulations around urban extractivism, cities emerge without other articulations with rural extractivism, while it would be, strictly speaking, a real estate extractivism. Faced with this state of the matter, the article constitutes a theoretical contribution in which we carry out a critical approach to the concept of extractivism, investigating the logics under which accumulation and territory are linked in Latin American cities. To do this, we build a perspective that seeks to go beyond the rural-urban dichotomy that responds to the binary logic that marks modern/colonial science and, simultaneously, seeks to go beyond the centrality of the real estate market in the explanation of these urbanization processes where extractivism, capitalism, and coloniality are inseparable. As a result, extractivism emerges as the hegemonic territorial ordering of capital where the rural-city binomial is diluted in a territory-network vertically integrated into production chains on a global scale and intervenes in the social production of cities, making the coloniality of its territory.

The article discusses an idea of "hegemonic urbanism" based on emerging approaches and methodologies, perspectives, and drifts coming from feminist epistemology and decolonial thought, among others. In the last quarter of the 20th century, a series of conditions and demands of social movements came together to question the theory and practice of urbanism from the perspective of the right to the city. The pandemic relocates a series of tensions linked to the diversity of the territories, daily life, and care. Initiatives and experiences are presented, which delve into the conceptual and analytical categories of gender and landscape based on critical resources such as the social cartographies that articulate teaching, research, and technological linkage based on the development of thematic experimentation laboratories. Social cartographies become devices that make visible new modes of representation and registers of the territory. We reflect on their contribution to urban planning as a collective practice for generating transversal and situated information. Likewise, the study of violence(s) and care, integrating the perspective of feminist urban planning and of the landscape, contributes to the construction of new interpretative, theoretical, and prospective paradigms of urban development.

Within the framework of the critique of academic colonialism and the search for non-parochialist urban studies, this paper presents a case in which these flows follow a reverse path, from the periphery to the center, so we tried to addressing a European case based on concepts, practices, and theories currently under development in Latin America. The production of housing in Marinaleda (Andalusia, Spain) shows connections with the cooperative experiences of Uruguay, with which it shares parameters of self-management and mutual aid. In Latin America, this type of experiences were analyzed from the perspective of Social Production of Habitat (PSH), from which the case is approached. The study is based on participant observations in Marinaleda, complemented by interviews with key informants and documentary analysis. The analysis shows that the European case is part of the most militant versions of the Latin American SHP, to the extent that - based on concrete connections - it recovers the forms of self-production typical of low-income sectors, disputes state resources, and bases its concrete practice on mutual aid, self-management, and rejection of private ownership. The article deepens the reflection on the complexity of the processes of diffusion of theories, ideologies, and transformative urban practices.

This article proposes a conceptualization exercise to open up decolonial paths to the debates on planetary urbanization from the Amazon. The analysis of indigenous disputes in this process shows that urban spaces are residual from an infrastructural perspective, as well as in their embodiment, meaning and everyday life. Through the analysis of eight different urban spaces in the Ecuadorian Amazon where indigenous practices are visible, a mixed qualitative-spatial methodology has been carried out during 2021 and 2022 through the historical study of the conformation of the territory, interviews with families and ethnographic observation. In the results of this study, four different categories of dispute of the new places of urbanization emerge, which clearly show the ways in which the process of colonization is contained, while at the same time the colonial logics are contested in their central places from their own knowledge, making it possible to counteract the dominant narratives of planetary urbanization in which capital advances omnipotently over indigenous territories. Therefore, the analysis contained in this article allows us to conclude that indigenous disputes make urbanization residual in the Amazon, allowing for a critical decolonial revision of its theorizing bases.

This text aims to critically reflect on the structure of the coloniality of power in “making city”. For this, we first review some links between the analysis of coloniality/decoloniality, the urban planning processes associated with “new urbanisms” and the “creative city” model, and the possibilities of street art as an enabling practice for a decentralized conception of the city. Then, from an ethnographic approach, we present three case studies in the city of Buenos Aires where these processes come into play, showing how coloniality operates in government practices and the potential decoloniality in community/collective practices in popular neighborhoods that, we believe, promote other ways of “making city” and of inhabiting urban spaces. It is concluded that the disputes generated by the urban aestheticization by the government tend to recreate parameters of the modern-colonial, while the self-managed art projects carried out in popular neighborhoods enable various types of decentralized thoughts that invite us to think of new forms of decoloniality.

Miguel Lawner interview.

Krausist’s philosophy of law is one of its main contributions and, at the same time, one of the least known. In this sense, Canalejas biography, a krausist lawyer and philosopher, is a privileged historiographic reference because of his participation in several key moments of the history of Spain and of the spanish law. Thus, the reconstruction of his implication in relevant legal, philosophical and political forums not only permits us to understand better his own role and krausism´s contribution but also it provides important datas to study in more detail in the analysis of the spanish society in the second half of the 19th century.

This paper presents the different scenarios to be faced as a result of the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean Sea, and the rescue operations carried out. These consequences are of a very diverse nature, since some of them affect only specific individuals, but others, however, affect society as a whole. On the one hand, there are the short-term consequences, which refer to criminal proceedings, either against NGOs and the crews of their ships, or against State officials. On the other hand, the long-term consequences (and that we have not faced yet), would be the threat to the free movement system (Schengen), and the possible knock-on effect. In this regard, a recent predictive mathematical model created ad hoc to try to measure this knock-on effect is analyzed.

The Bilingual Project, launched by the Autonomous Community of Madrid in 2004, aims to provide equal opportunities to learn English in order to make all students competitive in the increasingly global and competing market. However, the Project seems to exacerbate structural problems —school segregation, socioeconomic inequalities, disability-related discrimination and learning difficulties to assimilate curricular contents— that endanger important values in a democratic educational system, such as equality and justice.