In this paper I offer an analysis of the emergence, tactics and implications of urban transgression in Santiago, Chile, by emerging urban and housing movements. I explore the multi-scalar action repertoires that have unfolded and that invite a close consideration of the changing parameters of class struggle in the country.
Working with conceptual advances in the literature on urban movements, I argue that a signature outcome of over three decades of neoliberal urbanism has been the production of a triple nexus of (1) class decomposition (the growing class/generational splits among the middle classes, and the uncertain prospects facing these children), (2) a growing cross-class consciousness of inequality which emerges through spatial/local struggles and (3) a seemingly contradictory but much more variegated and in many ways ‘creative’ repertoire of protest performances.
Ernesto López-Morales is Associate Professor in the University of Chile and PhD in Urban Planning from the DPU, University College London. He is also associate researcher at the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES) where he focuses on land economic, gentrification, neoliberal urbanism and housing in Chile and Latin American cities.
This lecture is part of the Human Rights, Affordable Housing & Urban Development Strategies Summit. For more information, please visit: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/content/housing-summit
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