La acción vecinal más allá del barrio: el caso del distrito Nou Barris en Barcelona

Francisco Letelier; Fabiana Valdosky

doi:10.5354/0717-5051.2019.53618

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The neoecological conception of the neighborhood was adopted in the 1980s by various governments in Europe using the framework of the neoliberal agenda. Assumed in an uncritical way as a privileged (if not unique) scale for urban governance, the idea of the neighborhood has both legitimized and institutionalized a fragmented and depoliticized neighborhood action, with little capacity to produce an urban context. From a critical position to this notion of neighborhood and its implicit way of conceiving relations between communities and urban policies, this article proposes a multiscale and political approach of the neighborhood, by applying the concept of geographies of neighborhood action. To illustrate this approach, the case of the district of Nou Barris, in Barcelona, is analyzed, where the actions of the organizations go beyond the limits of the hegemonic notion of the neighborhood, constituting more complex relationships and broader territorialities that seek to influence the urban. It is concluded that the neighborhood action can adopt different ‘geographies’ and constitute new relational configurations not constrained by limiting spatialities. It can scale its fields of action from the immediate residential proximity to the entire city, and play a key role in intermediating between the everyday life and the political system.

The neighborhood action beyond the neighborhood: The case of Nou Barris district in Barcelona

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