Generative pedagogies from and for the social production of habitat: Learning from HIC-AL School of grassroots urbanism

Autor(en)
Julia Wesely, Adriana Allen, Lorena Zárate, María Silvia Emanuelli
Abstrakt

Re-thinking dominant epistemological assumptions of the urban in the global South implies recognising the role of grassroots networks in challenging epistemic injustices through the co-production of multiple saberes and haceres for more just and inclusive cities. This paper examines the pedagogies of such networks by focusing on the experiences nurtured within Habitat International Coalition in Latin America (HIC-AL), identified as a ‘School of Grassroots Urbanism’ (Escuela de Urbanismo Popular). Although HIC-AL follows foremost activist rather than educational objectives, members of HIC-AL identify and value their practices as a ‘School’, whose diverse pedagogic logics and epistemological arguments are examined in this paper. The analysis builds upon a series of in-depth interviews, document reviews and participant observation with HIC-AL member organisations and allied grassroots networks. The discussion explores how the values and principles emanating from a long history of popular education and popular urbanism in the region are articulated through situated pedagogies of resistance and transformation, which in turn enable generative learning from and for the social production of habitat.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung
Externe Organisation(en)
Global Platform for the Right to the City, Habitat International Coalition, University College London
Journal
plaNext - next generation planning
Band
11
Seiten
26-43
Anzahl der Seiten
18
ISSN
2468-0648
DOI
https://doi.org/10.24306/plnxt/72
Publikationsdatum
07-2021
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
509001 Aktionsforschung, 503033 Politische Bildung, 507027 Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Geography, Planning and Development, Urban Studies
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/238232f0-6ae6-43c9-a177-2e70cd22ef27