Processes Of Reterritorialization Research Articles

Landscaping an Ecuadorian neighborhood in Queens, NY

Diaspora studies on migration communities have shown how these transnational groups appropriate the new space in the receptive country through a process of deterritorialization and reterritorialization. These processes involve a reinterpretation and reconceptualization of the linguistic relationship between the language of the diaspora group and those spoken in the new home. One of the most visible places where this contextual relation must be negotiated is in the public sphere, where language, culture and identity are inevitably interwoven (Blackwood, Lanza & Woldemariam, 2016). Using a multimodal approach and using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, this article analyzes how an Ecuadorian-American community in Queens transformed the linguistic landscape of their surroundings to make it similar to what this community had in their home country.

A reterritorialização educacional nas áreas de reforma agrária em Santana do Livramento/RS, Brasil: o surgimento de um território protagonizado

RESUMO: O presente trabalho foi elaborado no delineamento das ações desenvolvidas pelo Projeto de Ensino intitulado: A reterritorialização da Educação Básica nas áreas de Reforma Agrária no Município de Santana do Livramento: A escola do Campo como território protagonizado, este financiado pelo Programa de Licenciaturas (PROLICEN) da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria/RS (UFSM), no ano de 2018, o qual estabelecia como proposta principal realizar inserções pedagógicas para os estudantes das Escolas do Campo, nas áreas de Reforma Agrária na tentativa de problematizar os processos de Reterritorialização Educacional na Campanha Gaúcha tendo como base a Educação do Campo. Desta forma, este artigo busca efetivar a problematização do papel dos sujeitos assentados pela Reforma Agrária no que se trata da manutenção e do fortalecimento das escolas do Campo, tendo como objetivo geral relatar as atividades de campo e ensino desenvolvidas na Escola Municipal de Ensino Fundamental Roseli Nunes, durante a realização do projeto citado, tendo os seguintes objetivos específicos: a) Refletir a trajetória de luta no âmbito da educação realizada pelo Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra - MST; b) aprofundar sobre a educação do campo e território camponês; c) destacar os processos dialógicos instituídos junto aos sujeitos envolvidos nas ações do projeto.
 PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Educação do/no campo. Território. Resistência.

Dazra Novak: lecturas de La Habana desde la blogosfera

El presente trabajo realiza un análisis de los modos en que se construye y se funda la ciudad de La Habana, desde el blog Habanapordentro, de la joven escritora cubana Dazra Novak. Desde él se configura una ciudad y textualidad virtual y ambas comparten procesos de desterritorialización y reterritorialización del propio espacio urbano y de la escritura misma. Por ello, por un lado, este texto dialoga con enfoques críticos que piensan el formato blog en el entorno de las nuevas escrituras del siglo xxi, y por otro, dialoga con algunas nociones subjetivas de la ciudad.

Multiterritorialidade no Facebook: cidadãos em busca de autonomia

Em páginas do Facebook criadas por moradores de bairros periféricos com a intenção de trocar informações hiperlocais (NUNES, 2017), os cidadãos que já compartilham uma proximidade geográfica podem criar multiterritórios de informação. Por meio do método etnográfico para internet (HINE, 2015), este artigo analisa como acontecem e quais as características dos processos de desterritorialização e reterritorialização dos sujeitos nos campos digitais. Para tal, utiliza-se o embasamento teórico de Haesbaert (2014), Santos (2006) e Lemos (2007). Conclui-se que a multiterritorialidade se dá em perfis pessoais e páginas e que os processos de reterritorialização acontecem devido à necessidade de reforçar a ideia de comunidade e de buscar a resolução de problemas sem depender do poder público.

Władze regionalne w zarządzaniu metropolitalnym. Polskie doświadczenia w odniesieniu do Kanady i regionu metropolitalnego Toronto = Regional authorities in metropolitan governance. Polish experience in the context of Canada and Toronto city-region

The article attempts to present dilemmas related to shaping metropolitan policy in Canada, and then relate them to problems occurring in Poland. It is a part of the debate on seeking the right governance configurations and discourses in response to the communities’ needs. Particular attention is paid to the characteristics of the scales of governance and socio-spatial relations in the Toronto metropolitan area. The article has been divided into four main parts. Part one outlines the theoretical framework and the context of the conducted analyses. Part two describes the structures and processes of regional and metropolitan governance in Southern Ontario, with the earlier reference to the institutional conditions and directions of reforms characteristic of the whole of Canada. Part three of the study concerns the governance arrangements that may constitute important reference points for the scientific and political discourse taking place in Poland. Part four is an attempt to capture the similarities and universal premises that have a decisive influence on the processes of forming metropolitan structures and policies, both in Canada and in Poland. The assumption was made that, despite different historical and socio-cultural conditions, comparing Canadian and Polish experiences is justified, necessary and possible. Firstly, due to the reason that socio-spatial relations in various territorial systems are subject to the same development processes and the accompanying processes of transformation and adaptation. Secondly, residents (members of local, metropolitan, regional, national and supranational communities) have similar needs and expect a high quality of life. Decision-makers and actors of political scenes in different geographical spaces have (or may have) the same technologies, ways of information processing, access to knowledge and knowledge of socio-economic processes. They also face challenges related to the inclusion of citizens in decision-making processes. The analysis of metropolitan processes in both countries emphasizes the differences resulting from various historical and economic contexts of development and also makes it possible to identify universal mechanisms and regularities independent of these contexts. The practice of metropolitan policy proves that the process of re-territorialization of power structures and governance is shaped as a resultant of the impact of forces and interests at all levels of territorial authorities: central, regional and local. Based on the analysis of the processes of the formation of metropolitan structures in Canada and Poland, it can be stated that the rank and position of regional authorities play a key role in it. In Canada, strong regional authorities initiate actions for the shaping of metropolitan structures and formulate the scope of their competence and organization. The importance of central authorities for the dynamics of metropolitan processes is secondary in this case. The weakness of regional authorities in Poland leads to the inability to give metropolitan processes the dynamics of development and the legislative rank adequate for the role played by urban regions in the socio-economic development of the country. As evidenced by the example of Toronto, the evolution of the governance system in practice initiates the process of self-learning the system which goes from one to another phase of development, improving the quality of its operation. In Poland, however, the process of creation of governance structures adequate for realistically existing functional metropolitan areas has been stopped, notably, due to the unfavourable political decisions at the central level.

How national parks change a rural municipality's development strategies – The Skjåk case, Norway

Abstract The governance structure on which contemporary nature conservation policy and practice are based represents a new structure that may affect development strategies in rural municipalities. The purpose of the article is to analyse the dynamics of change in local place development strategies in the wake of proposals of and establishments of national parks in a rural municipality in Norway. The empirical analysis is based on a qualitative longitudinal study that spanned a period of more than 20 years. The author claims that neo-endogenous approaches represent a valuable addition to studies that have treated state-driven nature conservation initiatives in terms of local resistance and unbalanced power relations. This due to the article's focus on co-evolution and the development of local capacity through external relations. Additionally, the article demonstrates the value of longitudinal studies when rural dynamics of change are investigated. Both planning and complexity theories are combined with assemblage theory are applied in order to conceptualize the dynamics of change from a local perspective. The author concludes that the national parks trigger strategic shifts and new approaches to place development that challenge previous strategies. Moreover, the local ability to act for change is strongly connected to processes of deterritorialization and reterritorialization. Additionally, new challenges grow in these processes of change, namely tensions between the defined and the undefined becoming when results in terms of goals and purposeful ends are not achieved.

SEGURANÇA HÍDRICA PARA O CAPITAL E DESPOJO MÚLTIPLE EM CONTEXTOS DE ESCASSEZ: ANÁLISE CRÍTICA SOBRE O NOVO CAMINHO DAS ÁGUAS NO ESTADO DA PARAÍBA, BRASIL

Neste artigo analisa-se novos processos de (re)territorialização ligados à construção de obras hídricas no Nordeste do Brasil, chamado “Canal Acauã-Araçagi”, situado no Estado da Paraíba (Região Nordeste). Para tal reflexão, busca-se apresentar o território estudado e seu novo contexto, caracterizado por um novo momento de intervenções estatais justificadas pela necessidade de resolver problemas históricos de escassez naquela região e as modificações que a própria pesquisa sofreu neste processo dinâmico de investigar a realidade social. Em segundo lugar apresentamos alguns pressupostos da investigação ancorados na teoria crítica e na ecologia política e o conceito de despojo multiple, para depois discutir criticamente alguns dados coletados nas atividades de campo realizadas no mês de Julho de 2018 na Paraíba, que chamamos de “novo caminho das águas”. Ao final, recorremos ao termo “segurança hídrica para o capital” para caracterizar os objetivos da obra, que contradiz o discurso oficial sobre sua necessidade/importância para o abastecimento humano em uma região com problemas de acesso e uso da água, apontando para um cenário de ampliação de conflitos territoriais naquela região.

El lugar de los cuerpos-territorios de las mujeres indígenas en procesos de desterritorialización y reterritorialización radicadas en Bogotá, Colombia

This article investigates the processes of deterritorialization and reterritorialization that have had to live in Bogota indigenous women from different parts of Colombia as a result of the armed conflict extended by decades. The interpretative argumentation is carried out from the new communitarian feminisms, the decolonial feminisms that allow to understand the positions of the indigenous women in terms of their search of recognition, agency, participation and autonomy. This is an article that aims to generate a reflection on the importance of recognizing the bodiesterritories of indigenous women and the relationships that remain between their culture and the territory to strengthen their participation in public policy areas in the city of Bogota.

Corpografías divergentes: las ciudades deseadas y las prohibidas en las experiencias travestis (Brasil)

Mediante pesquisas etnográficas realizadas en dos regiones de Brasil —São Paulo y Paraíba—, este artículo reflexiona sobre las maneras en que travestis y mujeres transexuales se hacen presentes en distintos espacios urbanos y cómo construyen formas de resistencia ante las adversidades de los modelosde la ciudad moderna y las múltiples formas de violencias de las que son víctimas. Su presencia en calles, avenidas, aceras y plazas de los medios urbanos no solo desafía reglas heteronormativas, sino ideas de espacio público, prácticas sexuales, corporeidades y géneros. A partir de experiencias urbanas diversas, hay un proyecto de transformación corporal y de movilidad social común que se inscribe en una imbricación intensiva entre cuerpo trans y ciudad, produciendo procesos de desterritorialización y reterritorialización.

Governing political spaces through “future work” – commentary to Jones

This reflections article is a comment upon Rhys Jones’ paper (in this issue) which deals with the geographies of the governance of the future. I suggest that the constant production of governmental imaginaries dealing with the future should be understood as “future work” that is an essential dimension of a broader phenomenon of “territory work” whereby processes of re-territorialization and de-territorialization come together. The active attempt to “know” and cope with the future should be understood as an essential constituent of all governing activities without which the rationality of governance would lose much of its meaning. Governance of the future, as it occurs in governmental practices and associated imaginaries that translate the future into a governable object, is an essential dimension in the ongoing remaking of territories of wealth, power and belonging. This process merits more geographical examination and commentary.

Mobilizing Territory: Socioterritorial Movements in Comparative Perspective

Why does territory matter to social movements and what does it allow them to achieve? Despite the ever-apparent centrality of territory—the appropriation and control of space through forms of power—to social movements worldwide (e.g., protest camps, land occupations, indigenous activism, squatting, neighborhood organizing), there has been a surprising lack of attention to this question by Anglophone geographers. This article develops Brazilian geographer Fernandes’s notion of “socioterritorial movements” as an analytical category for social movements that have as their central objective the appropriation of space in pursuit of their political project. It does so by contrasting the concept of socioterritorial movement to those of social movement and sociospatial movement and proposing four axes of analysis for socioterritorial movements. First, territory is mobilized as the central strategy for realizing a movement’s aims. Second, territory informs the identity of socioterritorial movements, generating new political subjectivities. Third, territory is a site of political socialization that produces new encounters and values. Fourth, through processes of territorialization, deterritorialization, and reterritorialization, socioterritorial movements create new institutions. These axes are further elaborated through the comparative analysis of two case studies: the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, a large peasant movement in Brazil, and the Tupac Amaru Neighborhood Organization, an urban social movement from northwest Argentina. Comparison is deployed as an expansive mode of analysis to open up the concept of socioterritorial movement and indicate potential lines of enquiry for further study. Key Words: Argentina, MST, social movements, socioterritorial movements, territory.

Rethinking the Geographies of Walkability in Small City Centers

What can be learned from conversations about walkability per se and specific ideas about the embodied geographies of walking? In this article, we work with the idea of a walking assemblage and the related concept of territory to clarify how social and material entities might promote or impede journeys on foot. Our analysis is grounded in ethnographic data collected about everyday walking among twenty-five residents in the center of Wollongong, a small city on the east coast of Australia. In presenting our interpretation, we attend to the embodied geographies of walkability. The concept of territory offers the potential to think about walkability as both performed and enfolded via the emotional and affective forces between and through proximate bodies and objects through processes of reterritorialization and deterritorialization. Although our case study is specific, our conceptual gaze is extensive and has salience for others concerned with walking, with small cities, and with thinking about how best to foster the conditions in which people thrive. We offer theoretical and policy-relevant conclusions that signal the importance of engaging with the nuances of the embodied geographies of walking.

Ruralidad y “frontera interior” en la Patagonia chilena: Unidades domésticas, vida cotidiana y nuevos ejes para su comprensión

The Chilean Patagonia possess a number of characteristics that makes it clearly distinguishable among other regions, such as its natural attributes, the scarce diversification of productive activities and perception of remoteness from the places where decisions that affect their inhabitants are taken. A low population density, poorly served roads, poor provision of services and food dependency, provokes that much of the political and symbolic relationships of this bio-region are only formal in relation to the State. They consigure a horizontal rather than a longitudinal country, whose reference systems are located in Argentinian towns. These aspects that define the conditions of living, together with new forms of territorial appropriation, and different forms of investment, constitute the elements of discussion used to problematize the process of rural reterritorialization of Patagonia in the most neoliberal country on the continent. We present here an analysis of the north Chilean Patagonia using an ethnographic method, asking about the daily life of their domestic units.

Saying “No” to (the) Oxygen Capital? Amenity migration, counter-territorialization, and uneven rural landscape change in the Kaz Dağları (Ida Mountains) of western Turkey

Diverse forms of conservation and development are transforming the material landscapes and related livelihoods of communities in rural places around the world. While many studies focus on changing protected area governance and ecotourism efforts associated with nature protection, other studies focus on residential development in areas experiencing amenity migration. We use a comparative political ecology approach that draws on key insights from the political ecology literature, first, on neoliberal protected area expansion, and, second, on exurbia that highlight the dynamics of competing rural capitalisms and reterritorializtion in areas experiencing amenity migration to explore these coupled conservation and development dynamics. Drawing on the case of the Kazdağları (Ida Mountains) along the Bay of Edremit in western Turkey, we examine how changing environmental governance associated with the region's national park created key conditions for the emergence of new real estate dynamics that supported amenity-related development in some villages. Yet our research also uncovers further uneven rural landscape changes and divergent outcomes associated with this reterritorialization process. Our findings suggest the presence of counter-territorialization dynamics, or the efforts of culturally distinctive villages in rural areas to resist these landscape changes. In the Kazdağları, selective strategies of engagement and non-engagement with the real estate market contribute to these divergent outcomes. To protect their cultural identity, villagers commodify particular landscape features, which enable these counter-territorializaton efforts to succeed. These findings hold insights for efforts to understand landscape patterns in rural areas characterized by changing protected area governance, high levels of natural amenity attracting in-migrants, and settlements with distinctive cultural identities.

O Projeto Ruas de Histórias Negras e a representação da matriz africana em Campinas: a disputa do território urbano – um estudo de caso

O artigo tem como objetivo apresentar um resumo do estudo de caso do Projeto Ruas de Histórias Negras, que buscou evidenciar, através do levantamento de alguns monumentos, praças e ruas que receberam nomes de personagens negros, a presença da matriz africana na cidade. Campinas, como a maioria das vilas consolidadas durante a colônia com grande número de escravizados, acabou por desenvolver estratégias para a manutenção da ordem contra revoltas e fugas de escravizados, que influenciaram e acarretaram um processo permanente de apagamento da percepção dessa presença da matriz africana no espaço urbano. Nos últimos anos tornou-se mais acirrado o processo de reterritorialização desse espaço com novas iniciativas, ações e a participação de coletivos ligados a essa matriz.

The 2014 volcanic eruption in Fogo and the reterritorialization process: from risk to geographic resilience

The population of Fogo Island, in Cape Verde, shows a peculiar relationship with the living territory, given that the eminence of volcanic risk is a reality they face every day. The 1951 and 1995 eruptions were particularly scarring in this insular geography, leaving in several generations of Cape Verdeans, the mark of a creation‐destruction‐restart cycle, as well as an attitude of symbiosis with nature. This article is intended to present and discuss results from a scientific research paper based on a study conducted on Fogo Island, in Cape Verde, in February 2016, where researchers sought to understand the local population's response to the last volcanic eruption (from November 2014 to February 2015), in a logic of deterritorialization‐reterritorialization, namely in terms of community and territorial resilience. The analysis method was based on direct observation, with record of the views in a field journal, as well as the biographic narratives of all those who were affected, through questionnaires and interviews.

Art in the Streets of a Shattered City

The world economy has detonated processes of re-territorialization in Latin American cities to favor their aspirations to be distinguished as global cities. The economical dynamics of globalization emerging from their public politics have increased social inequalities having their manifestations on one hand, in economical polarization of the urban area and on the other, in the gentrification and increasing social segmentation and fragmentation of the urban area. The result has been a new, socio-economically and culturally shattered geography of centrality and marginality with frictions between them having their manifestations in ourbreaks of contesting non-institutional creative and artistic practices of local communities and urban tribes, among them projects of art in the street and street art. These creative practices have been used by local urban communities as manifestations of civil resistance to denounce their marginalized situation and to demand major visibility in local public politics. In the framework of global creative economy thus, these illegitimate creative practices have been threatened by public politics favoring creative industries to convert them to new innovative cultural goods and services to impulse the production of aggregated value and through it, neutralize their contesting character. Thus, this paper analyses the cases of urban muralism in Xanenetla, Puebla, and street art in Cholula, Puebla, in order to study the impact of the dynamics of globalized economy on the local contesting culture and art as a fragmenting urban force.

Nuevas territorialidades frente a la megaminería: el caso de la Reserva Comunitaria de Junín


 En este artículo estudiamos el conflicto social vinculado a un megaproyecto minero en la zona de Íntag, en el Ecuador, desde una perspectiva que combina la geografía crítica y la ecología política. Analizamos en qué medida el conflicto, que inició hace dos décadas, ha dado lugar a cambios significativos en las territorialidades de la zona. Interpretamos la creación de la Reserva Comunitaria de Junín como un proceso de reterritorialización, liderado por comunidades aledañas al proyecto y amenazadas por la territorialidad que busca imponer capitales megamineros transnacionales. Evidenciamos la pertinencia del concepto de des-re-territorialización planteado por Haesbaert y mostramos que, en el marco de la conversión acelerada de territorios a la lógica del capital transnacional en América Latina, no necesariamente asistimos a una dinámica secuencial de “des” y luego “re” territorialización por un actor ajeno, nacional o transnacional. Más bien, esta conversión es a menudo un proceso contradictorio en el cual coexisten territorialidades antagónicas.

Writing posthumanism, qualitative enquiry and early literacy

This paper was written in the midst of enquiry – provoked by the question of what happens when we write posthumanism, qualitative enquiry and early literacy together. Rather than offer a stable methodology that is the product of our experimentation, the paper functions as a map, a situated cartography that has multiple access points and is generative and always becoming. Likewise, it does not present findings from which to draw easy (or even difficult) conclusions. Instead, it produces possibilities, as it remains open to further intra-actions that fall into and out of view as different readers, immersed in their various entanglements, take it up and see what it-they-we might do/be/become as they move through the process of territorialization, deterritorialization and reterritorialization, entangled life happening.

Territorio, clase social y lugar: premisas fundamentales del desarrollo territorial de base local, ecológica y cultural

Este artículo sintetiza el abordaje territorial de la investigación-acción en procesos de territorialización, desterritorialización y reterritorialización, destacando las premisas fundamentales para construir el desarrollo territorial de base local, ecológica y cultural, en el espacio urbano y rural. Una de las condiciones fundamentales es la formación y la calificación de la conciencia de clase y de lugar, por medio de la movilización y participación popular en cada proyecto de desarrollo, con el fin de lograr la conquista de autonomía decisoria y de autogestión, la conservación de la naturaleza y la valorización del patrimonio cultural. Los procedimientos utilizados en este trabajo son la investigación bibliográfica y empírica. El principal resultado es la orientación para la realización de proyectos de desarrollo territorial.