Resumen
This paper fundamentally reimagines urban resilience through Moravia, a community-built
neighborhood in Medellín, where residents actively contest official resilience narratives that legitimize displacement under the guise of urban renewal. Through action research we provide strong evidence for academia and policy while creating sustainable links among community processes and universities.
Drawing on territorialization of memory processes with 98 inhabitants across 30 meetings we
document 129 distinct response events and 79 community initiatives. Our results suggest that
resilience is a dynamic intersectional process of territorial recognition, collective agency, and
transformative resistance. Marginalized communities are evidenced to deploy memory both as a
planning tool and as a mechanism of resistance, suggesting the need for radical reconfigurations of
urban policy that recognize and preserve existing social infrastructure rather than replacing it with
formal institutional frameworks. This paper advances urban theory and policy by promoting the
integration of community memory into planning processes, the adoption of multi-scalar approaches
and the recognition of informal networks into formal resilience frameworks. We highlight the need
for further studies globally that follow memory processes in order to re-define urban theory and
practice. This should be achieved through participatory action research which respects and supports
the local ecosystems of action.
neighborhood in Medellín, where residents actively contest official resilience narratives that legitimize displacement under the guise of urban renewal. Through action research we provide strong evidence for academia and policy while creating sustainable links among community processes and universities.
Drawing on territorialization of memory processes with 98 inhabitants across 30 meetings we
document 129 distinct response events and 79 community initiatives. Our results suggest that
resilience is a dynamic intersectional process of territorial recognition, collective agency, and
transformative resistance. Marginalized communities are evidenced to deploy memory both as a
planning tool and as a mechanism of resistance, suggesting the need for radical reconfigurations of
urban policy that recognize and preserve existing social infrastructure rather than replacing it with
formal institutional frameworks. This paper advances urban theory and policy by promoting the
integration of community memory into planning processes, the adoption of multi-scalar approaches
and the recognition of informal networks into formal resilience frameworks. We highlight the need
for further studies globally that follow memory processes in order to re-define urban theory and
practice. This should be achieved through participatory action research which respects and supports
the local ecosystems of action.
| Título traducido de la contribución | Memorias de riesgo y acciones colectivas: redefiniendo la resiliencia comunitaria con y a través de Moravia (Medellín, Colombia) |
|---|---|
| Idioma original | Inglés |
| Publicación | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research |
| Estado | Presentada - 16 may. 2025 |
Tipos de Productos Minciencias
- Artículos de investigación con calidad A1 / Q1
ODS de las Naciones Unidas
Este resultado contribuye a los siguientes Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible
