RT Journal Article
T1 Spatial Practices in Borderlands: Bottom-Up Experiences and Their Influence on Border Communities
A1 Cimadomo, Guido
K1 Urbanismo
K1 Fronteras
AB Differences and conflicts are most evident at borderlands, which act as balancing tools to organize and filter economic and migratory flows. The increased militarization of these areas, which often requires creating empty spaces next to the fences, fosters deterritorialization processes that not only have profound effects on the territory, but also on the people living in these areas. As space shapes people, this paper analyses the effects of marginalization and violence, as well as hope for a better future for people and migrants living in these places. After evidencing place disattachment and life disruption originated by strong transformations to their environments, a review based on literature of several bottom-up experiences acting in these areas is presented. Based on subversion, contamination, hybridization and transgression, these examples show the interesting ambivalence of borderlands, which provide a provocative and inspiring arena for new local planning and architectural design for recovering place attachment, stronger community identities and the development of new models of coexistence.
PB ACME An International Journal for Critical Geographies
SN 1492-9732
YR 2017
FD 2017-10
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10630/14702
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10630/14702
LA eng
NO CIMADOMO, Guido. Spatial Practices in Borderlands: Bottom-Up Experiences and Their Influence on Border Communities. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, v. 16, n. 3, p. 362-382
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026