resistance
Racism in “Santako”
What can we do with industrial heritage? action and reflection from Barcelona’s Can Batlló
A naval battle in Vallecas (Madrid): utopia as a device to build identity
The “Reconquista” of Alcoi (Valencia)
The “Bachillera” and the struggle against gentrification in Seville
Links on protests in Maghreb
- José SÁNCHEZ GARCÍA (2011) “La revolución egipcia: jóvenes, política y sociedad“. (also in italian) Download his thesis “Juventud en sociedades árabes: ¿cómo construyen su identidad?” (2009) in PDF: 1-2-3.
- Issandr EL AMRANI "Why Tunis? Why Cairo?", London Review of Books, 4/2/2011
- Santiago ALBA RICO "Y de pronto, la revolución" Gara, 17/1/2011
- Gabriele DEL GRANDE "The dictatorship south of Lampedusa" Peacereporter, 10/11/2008
- “Insurrection in North Africa: the story so far“ Libcom, 17/1/2011 (in spanish in Indymedia Estrecho and Klinamen)
A competition of ideas against the demolition of a popular neighborhood
History and its distortions in the center of Barcelona
- Photos (2008-2009) of neighbors under eviction in Calle Robadors. [Album1][Album2]
- Manuel Vázquez Montalbán "The ethnical cleansing of the high classes" in El País, 14/9/1993
- "1988-1991 Crisis of heroin and beginnings of the urbanistic war in the historical center" in Masala, november-december 2009.
December 2010: burning cars
Gentrification: cars burning (2010). “The BRENNENDE-AUTOS.DE webpage is dedicated to the memory of the cars burned in Berlin since 2007. […] During the last three years in Berlin more than 500 cars, mostly big engined, have been burned by night. …
Recipes to eliminate poverty in Buenos Aires
Sevilla: neighborhood of San Bernardo in peril
“The neighborhood doesn’t have to be a closed community, nor a museum of past history: it shouldn’t be like this. The neighborhood, in a dynamic city, is driven by a constant process of tranformation, to continuous deconstructions and reconstructions that descends from various factors, for example to the same biology of human life. But the changes not always mean an enrichment. A neighborhood can also die and disappear, tranform into a space that is only residential, an agglomeration of private spaces without place nor common life“. From Manifiesto por San Bernardo, document about the transformation of the neighborhood of San Bernardo in Sevilla, and about the resistence movements who are leading its inhabitants. See also the webpage of the network of neighborhood struggles in Sevilla.…
The horizontal city: the neighborhoods of Cases Barates in Barcelona
Our research group began working in 2008 on the Casas Baratas de Bon Pastor, in the north periphery of Barcelona. It's a special neighborhood: more than 600 one-story houses, every one of them painted in a different color, in the middle of factories and industrial zones, on the shore of the Besós river. Built in 1929 in the middle of nowhere, to give housing to the immigrant factory workers (“murcianos y de la FAI”, they called it in those times), now it's an urban space more similar to a village than to a neighborhood of an occidental metropolis. A project of the Barcelona City Council, owner of all the houses, entails the “remodelation” of the whole area, through the demolition of the "casas baratas": the first 145 where demolished in 2007, a few months before we began our research. The inhabitants of the neighborhoods are suffering a series of “social pathologies” that go along the physical demolition of the houses: the social networks (neighbors, relatives...) are suffering the consequences of the urban transformation, and the "humanscape" of the neighborhood is changing maybe even faster than the physical landscape.
- READ THE REPORTS OF THE RESEARCH “Represalies i resistencies a les cases barates de Bon Pastor” i “Lluita social i memoria col.lectiva a les cases barates de Barcelona” (primer informe – segon informe)
- There is a webpage that we are using to work, but in which we are uploading the material we are producing: http://laciutathoritzontal.org
Des del Ressentiment (Barcelona, 2006)
Short documentary film we realized in 2006 on the factory of Can Ricart (Barcelona), under the effects of the “22@” urban renewal plan. All the industries and organizations that used the XVIIIth century stucture had to leave, as well as most of the inhabitants of the surrounding buildings. …
Naples, 2013 Forum of Cultures
- Critical webpage against Naples 2013 Forum
- Declaration of the IX Congress of the Federation of Anthropological Associations of the Spanish State, FAAEE, 2002) about Barcelona's Fòrum de las Culturas 2004 PDF