Abstract

BATISTA DA COSTA, Everaldo. Popular Activation of Territorial Heritage in Latin America: Theory and Methodology. Cuad. Geogr. Rev. Colomb. Geogr. [online]. 2017, vol.26, n.2, pp.53-75. ISSN 0121-215X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcdg.v26n2.59225.

Latin America’s serious social problems - from ethno-cultural intolerance to labor precariousness and indigence - produce ‘territories of exception’ as locus of life, segmented and vigorous, of those subalternized by modernity/coloniality of power. Along these lines, the article aims to elaborate theoretical notes and methodologies for the popular activation of ‘territorial heritage’ located in Latin American territories of exception. We adopt two main analytical procedures: a) territorial heritage is approached as resistance, in the logic of social and spatial division of Latin American work; and b) the popular activation of territorial heritage is discussed with methodological proposals in terms of levels, scales and temporalities, for the building of ‘utopic heritage itineraries’. Recent Cepal data on urbanization, work, poverty and tourism in Latin America support and justify the proposal.

Keywords : Latin America; coloniality of power; heritage itinerary; territorial heritage; territory of exception; tourism.

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