(en) Chile, Solidaridad #26 - Nonguén-Conception: elements
for the construction of territorial platforms (ca)[machine
translation]
Next to the intense urbanization process that is developing in much of South America, a
series of political processes that do not provide any guarantee in terms of regional
planning are presented. This has made locally territories in vulnerable areas, encouraging
the basis for a globalization that hits until our last links of natural, cultural,
architectural, and their different expressions. ---- In this context, Chile is a faithful
representative of neoliberal extremism, reflected in a, increasingly unequal distribution
biased, and in which public spaces are in retreat, privatized the ordinary. The
socio-spatial segregation goes against the idea of strengthening cohesion in social
relations: again and again we are displaced by the non-city, non-places, where the design
is functional consumer and building collective memory, meeting places and assembly are
quite limited. Thus we see the foundation of a model of completely individualized, unequal
and alienating relations, in which the localities they operate in a condition of room for
economic center of global networks and therefore subordinate their interests.
In this scenario, they see as the sectors of the territory with less accessibility, poor
public transport, presence of socio-environmental conflicts, exclusion through
gentrification, irregular peripheral settlement on lands with high natural risks, are
precisely the big omitted in the construction of city .
Facing the institutional deadlock and lack of development of a territorial thesis feat
projects national political support, one wonders how bets on building regional platforms
can manage to overcome cyclical and specific fighting in a structural perspective, ie
allowing provide continuity and planning our political work. Following this seems
important to mention as organizational creativity when lifting platforms territorial plays
an important role in the process, we emphasize question given the experience developed in
our territory.
In this sense, territorial conflicts have great prominence because it is linked to
organizational spaces unite experiences that allow an important social asset that rises to
joints or specific claims; such as relatives committees, coordinating or movements that
resist socio-environmental conflicts, among others. These platforms, possessing elements
of clear demand, allow massive and wide, so that the most difficult task is given in terms
of having the platform projectibility depending on the resolution or conflict. In most
experiences like these, times are handled by the state apparatus, and thus greatly reduces
the institutional movements on the board of social organizations. It is in these moments
where the dynamism of territorial platforms plays an important role, since the lack of
organizational models that achieve remove all parts and forces game institutional arena,
not just perspective the struggle of the territorial platforms, but also projected level
elements structure which start developing longer range work.
In Nonguén, the development of large workspaces from circumstantial elements has allowed
today to develop clear lines of labor within the "Movement for the Defense of Nonguén
Valley" that address from the popular media; through a newspaper and a radio program; food
sovereignty and local production, with the construction of community gardens; territorial
organization in achieving territorial meetings; education, arts and culture, in conducting
educational workshops.
This organizational model has deepened the construction of territorial organization. But
we are aware that yes this work is not provided with a complete diagnosis of the
territorial reality in Chile, specifically yes we are unable various territorial
organizations to build a what to do? in response to expressions of the model in our cities
Localism continue giving priority in most of the precarious territorial experiences.
by collective El Estero
[Published in the Solidarity No 26]
http://www.periodico-solidaridad.cl/2015/01/19/nonguen-concepcion-elementos-para-la-construccion-de-plataformas-territoriales/
