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Article: Dreaming dialectically: The death and life of the Mexico City charter for the right to the city
Title | Dreaming dialectically: The death and life of the Mexico City charter for the right to the city |
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Keywords | social justice regeneration dialectics governance inequality right to the city politics redevelopment |
Issue Date | 2020 |
Citation | Urban Studies, 2020, v. 57, n. 10, p. 2064-2079 How to Cite? |
Abstract | © Urban Studies Journal Limited 2019. This article investigates the conceptual and political history of the right to the city in Mexico City from the late 1980s to the present, focusing especially on the Mexico City Charter for the Right to the City completed and endorsed by leading political figures in 2010. By grounding this investigation in the dialectical methods of Henri Lefebvre, the article builds on roughly 12 months of ethnographic and archival fieldwork in Mexico City to argue that all such instantiations of the right to the city are bound to commit a certain violence against the idea. What the Mexico City case also suggests, however, is that such a dialectical concept is also always radically open to revivification and reimagining, as exemplified by the return of the right to the city in Mexico City’s 2017 constitution. Analysing the right to the city and its attendant politics and history from this vantage allows two crucial and underappreciated insights to emerge from this case: that the right to the city can be and sometimes is pursued under alternative auspices, and that any apparent stasis, even political death, is best considered temporary and mutable. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/288967 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 4.2 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.806 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Gerlofs, Ben | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-12T08:06:20Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-10-12T08:06:20Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Urban Studies, 2020, v. 57, n. 10, p. 2064-2079 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0042-0980 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/288967 | - |
dc.description.abstract | © Urban Studies Journal Limited 2019. This article investigates the conceptual and political history of the right to the city in Mexico City from the late 1980s to the present, focusing especially on the Mexico City Charter for the Right to the City completed and endorsed by leading political figures in 2010. By grounding this investigation in the dialectical methods of Henri Lefebvre, the article builds on roughly 12 months of ethnographic and archival fieldwork in Mexico City to argue that all such instantiations of the right to the city are bound to commit a certain violence against the idea. What the Mexico City case also suggests, however, is that such a dialectical concept is also always radically open to revivification and reimagining, as exemplified by the return of the right to the city in Mexico City’s 2017 constitution. Analysing the right to the city and its attendant politics and history from this vantage allows two crucial and underappreciated insights to emerge from this case: that the right to the city can be and sometimes is pursued under alternative auspices, and that any apparent stasis, even political death, is best considered temporary and mutable. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Urban Studies | - |
dc.subject | social justice | - |
dc.subject | regeneration | - |
dc.subject | dialectics | - |
dc.subject | governance | - |
dc.subject | inequality | - |
dc.subject | right to the city | - |
dc.subject | politics | - |
dc.subject | redevelopment | - |
dc.title | Dreaming dialectically: The death and life of the Mexico City charter for the right to the city | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/0042098019868102 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85074510988 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 57 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 10 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 2064 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 2079 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1360-063X | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000491575900001 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0042-0980 | - |