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Aspirational activism in urban Latin America

拉丁美洲城市的理想行动主义

基本信息

批准号：
298748707
负责人：
Dr. Raul Acosta Garcia, Ph.D.
金额：
--
依托单位：
Institut für Ethnologie
依托单位国家：
德国
项目类别：
Research Grants
财政年份：
2015
资助国家：
德国
起止时间：
2014-12-31 至 2019-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/298748707?language=en
关键词：
Aspirational activism urban Latin America

项目摘要

As more than half of the global population now lives in cities, urban governance has become a key interest for scholars and policymakers. This project will analyse a variety of emerging mobilisations by social actors in Latin America who are driven by demands for better government projects and policies so as to improve the quality of urban life. Grassroots efforts to negotiate and achieve collective aspirations constitute a process of imagining and creating possible futures. As such, they are receiving increasing scholarly attention, but still require rigorous systematic investigation. This project introduces aspirational activism as a critical category of grassroots practices in order to analyse the interplay of material and moral interests of activists. It will investigate the way in which activists in two networks (Tomala, in Guadalajara, Mexico, and Rede Nossa Sao Paulo, in Sao Paulo, Brazil) navigate collective aspirations for material and moral improvements in urban life. As a region that grapples with striking levels of inequality, and because of its authoritarian past, Latin America exemplifies the difficulties related to promoting civic engagement when there is a strong resistance to inclusive public dialogues among government institutions and other influential bodies. This is an anthropological study especially focused on three concurrent processes: (1) the way in which activists combine concerns of urban dwellers to articulate aspirations for better futures; (2) the decision-making strategies of activists in light of their demands for inclusive governance schemes; and (3) the innovative performances of dissent by activists as forms of engagement with urban dwellers and government officials. In contexts of increased affluence and persistent inequalities, this project will offer insights into ongoing negotiations over desired futures taking place in Latin America and a critical tool for the analysis of grassroots practices worldwide.

由于目前全球一半以上的人口居住在城市，城市治理已成为学者和政策制定者的主要兴趣。该项目将分析拉丁美洲社会行动者发起的各种新兴动员活动，这些行动者受到对更好的政府项目和政策的需求的推动，以提高城市生活质量。基层谈判和实现集体愿望的努力构成了想象和创造可能的未来的过程。因此，它们受到越来越多的学术关注，但仍需要严格的系统研究。该项目将抱负行动主义作为草根实践的一个关键类别引入，以分析行动者物质利益和道德利益的相互作用。它将调查两个网络（墨西哥瓜达拉哈拉的托马拉和巴西圣保罗的 Rede Nossa Sao Paulo）的积极分子如何实现城市生活物质和道德改善的集体愿望。作为一个正在努力解决严重不平等问题的地区，并且由于其独裁历史，拉丁美洲在政府机构和其他有影响力机构之间的包容性公共对话遭到强烈抵制时，就体现了促进公民参与所面临的困难。这是一项人类学研究，特别关注三个同时发生的过程：（1）活动家如何结合城市居民的担忧来表达对更美好未来的渴望；（二）积极分子针对包容性治理方案诉求的决策策略； (3) 活动家以创新的方式表达异议，作为与城市居民和政府官员接触的形式。在日益富裕和持续不平等的背景下，该项目将为拉丁美洲正在进行的关于理想未来的谈判提供见解，并为分析全球草根实践提供重要工具。