Espaços (Des)Habitados | (Un)Inhabited Spaces

• This theme was defined in the winter of 2019, when no one predicted the pandemic crisis caused by COVID-19, which brought other dimensions and relevance to questions of inhabiting and uninhabiting spaces. At the time, there were other issues whose analysis seemed to be urgent: ​(1) gentrification and touristization of historical and environmentally protected sites; ​(2) occupation movements of uninhabited spaces; ​(3) territorial uprooting or intermittent rootedness, both resulting from mass human and cultural mobility, sometimes fostered by technological development and the globalization of the economy, sometimes determined by war, misery and hunger; ​(4) new (?) forms of ruralization or de-ruralization of regions with accentuated histories of population desertification. These processes are driven by the seduction of the economic and socio-cultural dynamism of cities, as well as by the search for alternative and more environmentally sustainable ways of re-inhabiting territories; (5)​climate change, catastrophes, and processes of resettlement and regeneration; ​(6) ​and, among others, the inhabitation of space by art and art as an inhabited space. We therefore invited critical, theoretical-conceptual and artistic reflections on these topics, both in the current context of the Covid19 pandemic as in other contexts and approaches for the number5 of T RANSLOCAL-ContemporaryLocalandUrbanCultures​.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Annan humaniora (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Other Humanities (hsv//eng)

Keyword

space; extractivism; gentrification; touristification; inhabiting; uninhabiting

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