La ciudad narrada: Revuelta y semántica del conflicto urbano

Abstract

I will analyse the role of the city in the recent social movements from the starting account of a specific episode of my ethnographic fieldwork, developed in Copenhagen in 2009. From the end of the anti-globalization movement to the urban revolts of the second decade of the 21st century, the city has become a central object of political, social and epistemological debate. A central issue of contemporary discourses and narratives. Describing revolt and urban conflict from a symbolic and material point of view, but also semantically, I will deal with a semantics of urban conflict that reveals a narrated city composed of multiple voices and plot lines. Social conflict, inherent to the urban life and to the everyday life of activism and social movements, is analysed herefrom the point of view of imaginaries, histories and narratives. Contrasting the discourses of the elites to the activist ones, the processes of marketization and urban entrepreneurialism as well as the rhetoric of the brand city and the creative city will also be observed in this paper.