Alternautas, an interdisciplinary journal in Latin American critical thinking, published a special issue focused on Latin America’s busy streets to present new research on activism and artistic interventions.
This issue reaffirms the importance of public spaces in introducing agendas for social justice. Thanks to the occupation of streets in multiple ways, artists, activists, and advocates have, for decades, fought authoritarianism, campaigned for fundamental rights, and strengthened democratic co-existence.
Streets of Latin America features case studies from Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, and Brazil, prioritising intersectional politics and decolonial methods. Articles touch on fresh pathways for more participative urbanism without forgetting local history and culture.
Introduction Streets of Latin America: New Battlegrounds of Change
Articles
Clara Garavelli
Bocanada (Graciela Sacco, 1993-2023): Thirty Years of ‘Interferences’
Eva Youkhana, Cilia Saed Hedayatiy
Feminist Urbanism: A Participatory Approach of Mapping Diverse Perspectives of Safety and Fear in the Latin American Urban Space
Erich Hellmer
Beyond the public space tableau: Insurgent heritage and the right to the city in Bogotá
The Renaming of Those Hidden by the State: Mexico City’s La Glorieta de las Mujeres que Luchan
Eliana Otta
The “Retablos” wait for your demands! Community building through feminist artivism amidst lethal repression in Peru
Alessandra Simões Paiva
The Dissolution of the Cognitive Empire: Brazilian Street Art During the Pandemic and the Urban Landscape as a Medium for Decolonial Poetics
Reviews
Helton Levy
Urban Media and Participatory Spaces Research Group 