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The editorial team of CROLAR is pleased to present its fourth number, “Lo Urbano”. As the title indicates, “the urban” and urban phenomena in and from Latin America are in the focus of this issue. As a place of anonymous cohabitation and social diversity (Simmel 1903), as a sphere of capitalist reproduction and collective consumption (Castells 1974), from the imaginarios urbanos (García Canclini 1996) to the “Rebel Cities” (Harvey 2012) the city has inspired systematic analysis of the tight linkages between public space and collective culture, between space and capital accumulation, and of social discontent.
Today, Latin America is at once the most urbanized continent and home to the most striking social inequalities. Since the 1960s, private and public research on these topics has increased and regional governments have reacted by installing urban planning authorities. The long interdisciplinary tradition of Urban Studies in Latin America has predominantly focused on issues such as (extreme) poverty, segregation, insecurity, and violence. And yet, a questioning of the specificity of Latin American cities has only recently begun and with it a debate on the universality of urbanization processes, theories, and methodologies. What is more, beyond the dystopic image that generalizes peripheral “slums” to be an essential characteristic of the continent’s major cities, Urban Studies in and from Latin America increasingly access the potential and plurality of urbanization processes and approaches for their analyses.
Hence the question that drives the Focus section of CROLAR's current issue: With respect to “the urban”, what can and has been learned from Latin America? We found several overlapping topics and lines of inquiry in current research in and from Latin America: (1) an interest in the translatability and mobility of concepts and methods and, connected to this, the question of hierarchies in knowledge production, which undermine global horizontal exchanges; (2) a persistent focus on how urban space is appropriated not only materially, but also on a symbolic level; (3) an opening-up towards the study of fragmented political sovereignties in the management and distribution of resources; (4) new methods for the analysis of urban segregation; (5) promising critical approaches to the long- lasting debate on urban informality; and (6) how commodification of cultural diversity and cultural expressions transform the space of America’s cities....read more..
Frank Müller, Anke Schwarz & The CROLAR Editorial Team
Vol 2, No 2 (2013): Lo Urbano
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Focus
| Tim Edensor and Mark Jayne (eds.) (2012): Urban Theories Beyond the West: A World of Cities |
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Leonardo Moreira Pascuti |
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| Anne Huffschmid und Kathrin Wildner (eds.) (2013): Stadtforschung aus Lateinamerika |
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Frank Müller |
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| Paola Alfaro d‘Alençon, Walter Alejandro Imilan and Lina María Sánchez (eds.) (2011): Lateinamerikanische Städte im Wandel |
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Franziska Lind |
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| Viviane Mahieux (2011): Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America |
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Pedro M. Cameselle-Pesce |
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| Markus-Michael Müller (2012): Public Security in the Negotiated State |
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Markus Hochmüller |
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| Raúl Zibechi (2011): Territorien des Widerstands. Eine politische Kartographie der urbanen Peripherien Lateinamerikas |
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Monika Streule |
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| André Cicalo (2012): Urban Encounters: Affirmative Action and Black Identities in Brazil |
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Sarah Lempp |
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| Emilio Pradilla Cobos (ed.) (2011): Ciudades compactas, dispersas, fragmentadas |
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Anke Schwarz |
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| Thomas Maloutas and Kuniko Fujita (eds.) (2012): Residential Segregation in Comparative Perspective |
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Rodrigo Rodrigues-Silveira |
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| Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques (2012): Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South |
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Markus Michael Müller |
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| Gustavo Garza y Martha Schteingart (eds.) (2010): Desarrollo urbano y regional |
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Edgar Guerra Blanco |
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| Janice Perlman (2010): Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro |
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Ramiro Segura |
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| metroZones (eds.) (2011): Urban Prayers. Neue religiöse Bewegungen in der globalen Stadt |
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Andrea Steinke |
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| Olaf Kaltmeier (ed.) (2011): Selling EthniCity: Urban Cultural Politics in the Americas |
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Laura Kemmer |
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| John T. Way (2012): The Mayan in the Mall: Globalization, Development and the Making of Modern Guatemala |
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Taylor Hawke Jardno |
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| Review Essay: Arts, Culture and the City in Latin America |
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Christian Morgner |
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Classics Revisited
| Lob (und Kritik) der Straße. Manuel Delgado zum öffentlichen als konfliktivem Raum |
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Anne Huffschmid |
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Interventions
| Pedro Moctezuma Barragán (2012): La Chispa. Orígenes del Movimiento Urbano Popular en el Valle de México |
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Jonathan Ulises Nolasco Cisneros |
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Current Debates
| Lisa M. Glidden (2011): Mobilizing Ethnic Identity in the Andes |
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Rocío Elizabeth Vera Santos |
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| Edward Gibson (2012): Boundary Control: Subnational Authoritarianism in Federal Democracies |
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Constantin Groll |
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| Elsa Drucaroff (2011): Los prisioneros de la torre. Política, relatos y jóvenes en la postdictadura |
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Candela Marini |
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Complete Edition
| Vol. 4 "Lo Urbano" | Complete Edition |
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