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Imagination and mobility in the city: porosity of borders and human development in divided urban environments

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  • Jovchelovitch, Sandra
  • Dedios Sanguineti, Maria Cecilia
  • Nogueira-Teixeira, Mara Cristina
  • Priego-Hernandez, Jacqueline

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We focus on the notion of borders to explore how mobility and immobility in the city affect the relationship between human development and urban culture. We define borders as a relational space made of territoriality, representations, and different possibilities of mobility and immobility. Drawing on research in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, we suggest a systematic approach to the analysis of borders and identify the socio-institutional, spatial, and symbolic elements that make them more or less porous and thus more or less amenable to human mobility. We highlight the association between porosity in city borders and human development and illustrate the model contrasting two favela communities in Rio de Janeiro. We show that participation in the sociocultural environment by favela grassroots organisations increases the porosity of internal city borders and contributes to the development of self, communities, and the city. To focus on borders, their different elements and levels of porosity means to address simultaneously the psychosocial and cultural layers of urban spaces and the novel ways through which grassroots social actors develop themselves through participation and semiotic reconstruction of the socio-cultural environment.

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  • Jovchelovitch, Sandra & Dedios Sanguineti, Maria Cecilia & Nogueira-Teixeira, Mara Cristina & Priego-Hernandez, Jacqueline, 2020. "Imagination and mobility in the city: porosity of borders and human development in divided urban environments," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 101463, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    Keywords

    human development; social representations; identity; urban cultures; borders; peripherall urbanization; social development; favelas;
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    • Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment

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