Technical language and the (im)possibilities for a democratic production of space
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2016
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Understanding language as a structuring element of the human relationship with reality (FOUCAULT, 2007) and viewing the city as a common and a right - not only of access, but of transformation (LEFBVRE, 2001; HARVEY, 2008) -, this paper attempts to contribute to the social inclusion debate and the democratic means of space production by unveiling some of the technical language’s effects on citizens capacities to affect and interfere both on the city decision-making processes and on space itself - a fundamental dimension to wealth and sociability production, that is, of life reproduction.
Focusing Brazilian's urban context - marked by self-production (ABRAMAT, 2005) and illegality (TIBO, 2011) -, this aim is addressed by a theoretical essay based on Pierre Bourdieu’s symbolic economy analysis strategy, in order to better understand the system of rules that determine technical language’s efficacy and highlight the social conditions of language production. Which are, in architecture and urbanism’s technical language case, fundamentally disciplinary conditions. Fitting also to approach Michael Foucault's theory - imperative for a study concerning the relationship between power and knowledge as forms of institutional social control - particularly highlighting the author’s developments on the definition of discipline.
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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