Médias urbains civiques : Créer et partager des connaissances ascendantes sur les villes pour façonner les politiques urbaines

Dans le cadre du rapport GOLD V1 de UCLG, le Réseau CoHabitat a contribué à un certain nombre d'études de cas basées sur leur expérience de projets réussis visant à surmonter les inégalités urbaines et territoriales.

AUTRICES ET AUTEURS
James Tayler (Slum Dwellers International), Bea Varnai (urbaMonde) et Mariangela Veronesi (World Habitat)

VILLES/PAYS COUVERTS
Rio de Janeiro (Brésil); Bristol (Royaume Uni); Kenya, Namibie, Nigeria, Sénégal, Sierra Leone, Afrique du Sud, Uganda, Zambie, Zimbabwe.

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SOMMAIRE

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.

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