Comunicación cívica urbana: Crear y compartir conocimientos sobre las ciudades desde abajo para definir las políticas urbanas
Actualizado elInforme GOLD VI
Como parte del Informe GOLD V1 de CGLU, los socios de la Red CoHabitat han contribuido con una serie de casos de estudio basados en su experiencia en proyectos que han logrado superar las desigualdades urbanas y territoriales.
AUTORES
James Tayler (Slum Dwellers International), Bea Varnai (urbaMonde) and Mariangela Veronesi (World Habitat)
CIUDADES/PAÍSES QUE INCLUYE
Río de Janeiro (Brasil); Bristol (Reino Unido); Kenia, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leona, Sudáfrica, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabue
▶ Encuentra aquí estudio de caso completo (PDF)
SUMMARY
Citizens and urban dwellers connect, communicate and tell stories by using different media such as radio, photography and video to increase the recognition of their local struggles towards social justice, participation and the right to the city. These civic media and storytelling practices directly relate to the processes shaping urban politics and urban planning and contribute to producing the (counter-)narratives of the city.
Acknowledging the potential of civic urban media in challenging the representations of the urban poor and urban residents, and in enhancing collaboration among citizens in voicing their claims, civic urban media initiatives have emerged in a variety of places and contexts.
They contribute to creating grassroots/bottom-up knowledge on cities with the aim to shape urban policies and politics but also showcase alternative ways of making and managing media towards more cooperation and community control. This contribution looks at three cases of civic urban media from various countries in Africa, as well as the UK and Brazil.