September 2010: the new categories as proposed in workshop in the Zurich retreat

Marvi – settembre 2010 -

Proposal for new list of categories (starting from the one proposed in the workshop during INURA conference 2010) with some changes and a proposed correlation with old cathegories (with numbers). Taking into account also the work of Arie.



- Urban region (1) (the boundary of the metropolitan areas, relation between urban and rural, new rururban areas)

- central areas (2)



1. NMM spaces formed by the NMM hegemonic discourse and imaginery (spaces of city marketing (through image)

2. SPACES OF ACCUMULATION BY DISPOSSESSION
 * flagship projects (12)
 * trendy neighbourhoods (4)
 * strategic urban infrastructure projects (13)
 * important events and festivals (14)
 * failed and grounded (large) projects (15)
 * social and cultural policies that produce collective heritage
 * ... Projects

3. NEW SPACES OF EXTREME EXPLOITATION OF LABOUR
 * <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">public spaces and services (public space, housing, education, health)
 * <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">natural resources (es. dispossession of rivers, water, land, green spaces, dispossession of quality of air through pollution, etc.)
 * <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">cultural heritage / identity (examples: exploitation through turism)
 * <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">social rights
 * <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">gentrification
 * <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">areas of privatization (7)
 * <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">areas of (private or state led or PPP) reinvestment /areas of intense neighbourhood upgrading or urban regeneration (8 and 9)

<p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">4. ELITE EXCLUSIONARY ZONES
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">special production zones (ex. Sweatshops, maquilas)
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">areas of production plants almost illegal or illegal, without or with few workers rights
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">private services using flexible and very low paid work

<p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">5. SPACES OF REPRESSION
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">gated communities /exclusionary zones (5)
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">very high income area (6)
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">public and private spaces (with restricted or controlled access, private security)

<p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">6. SPACES OF CORRUPTION AND ELITE STRATEGIES (LEGAL AND ILLEGAL)
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">detention centres
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">extreme repression (area of militarization, paramilitarization)
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">military camp
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">illegal detention centres

<p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">7. SPACES OF INFORMALITY /POVERTY
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">projects, plans or public works heavily affected by corruption (could be a point on an area designed by other cathegories as flagship, or state led reinvestment..)
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">strategic plans designed by the ruling groups (outside and beyond urban planning legislation)
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">plans and projects by the "growth coalition"
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">speculative illegal (or almost illegal) buildings and illegal elite villas

<p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">8. BUILDING POSSIBLE URBAN WORLDS
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">autocostruction popular
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">informal settlements (11)
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">areas of disinvestment (10)
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">areas of exclusion and marginalization

<p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">9. CONTESTED SPACES
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">developing alternatives to everydaylife, housing, collective spaces, culture, art
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">appropriation of public spaces, housing, social centre, art and culture workshops...
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">self-management (self organised spaces)
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">collective urbanization
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">victories
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">spaces of happiness (and pleasure)

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 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">fights to gain rights, spaces, access to..
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">reclaiming
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">contested spaces, contested projects
 * <p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">conflicts about identities of places

<p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">Note:

<p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">With the metacategories 2 (disposssession), 3 exploitation, 4, 5. spaces of repression, we uncover what lies behind the glitter of NMM.

<p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">Someone ask to show the Global investors, I think they will be considered when we name the one promoting accumulation by dispossession (with its subcategories) and we name the corrupted from the "spaces of corruption category".

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<p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">Conceptual maps are necessary to express: relational spaces (the space of social relationships) and spaces of representation (lived spaces): visions, fantasies, memories desires, dreams...

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<p style="text-align: LEFT; margin-bottom: 0cm">I found interesting the following note that, as often EZLN are able to do, in short summarize all:

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">EZLN: Towards that new world that we have in our hearts, in which there is room for many worlds.

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">the four axes of capitalism:

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">- exploitation

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">- dispossession

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">- repression

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">- contempt

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">militarization paramilitarization corruption and impunityI