Espacialidad, experimentación y resistencia espacial en Colombia

Abstract

The latent conflicts around the organization and liberation of spaces, important problems today, can be thought of as a politics of spaces and subjects. It is a complex way of analysing contemporary spatio-subjective reality, through a model of the relationship of forces that we call the relational political ontology of spaces and subjects, which serves to question specific contexts. Therefore, two levels of analysis are proposed, consistent with a properly Foucauldian genealogical study. The first level describes the main components of hegemonic politics and spatio-subjective control, through contextual research. The second level of analysis consists of the systematic study of resistant practices, which is the subject of special reflection in this thesis. The final document has five main chapters, not including the introduction: the second chapter provides a theoretical and conceptual dissertation on the notions of space and subject that served as the foundation for the entire research; this part studies the controversies raised by some contemporary strands of criticism regarding the dominant concepts of space and seeks to establish a type of conceptualization that connects, in both ways, spaces with subjects in a theory of complex co-production between the two. The third chapter is a methodological outline, expressed in the analytical model entitled Relational Political Ontology of Spaces and Subjects. The fourth chapter presents a contextualization of the events that mark the history of contemporary space-subjective politics in Colombia and Bogotá, with an emphasis on control policies, their consolidation and rupture from the beginning of the 20th century to the 1990s. The fifth chapter implements the analysis of resistant practices, including an exploration of constructive resistances such as green construction and community resistances: neighborhood, eco-village and peace communities. Finally, at the end of this document we present the general conclusions of the research, starting with six major principles or strategies of resistant action extracted directly from the pragmatic analysis carried out in the fifth chapter.