CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Garzón Ramírez, Sonia |
|---|---|
| Title | Forcibly Urban: Internally Displaced Persons' Experiences of Bogota's Neoliberal Transformation |
| Summary | This research explores the extent to which neoliberal urbanization being implemented in the global South allows marginalized populations, and specifically displaced people, to enjoy the right to the city. Drawing on the narratives of forcibly displaced people living in Bogotá, this research highlights the links between the dynamics of race, gender, class, sex and ethnicity that lie beneath this city’s spatial order and the mechanisms of violence and intra-urban displacement that shape displaced people’s urban experiences. Despite the expectations that Bogotá’s urban renewal would bring about a homogenous city, this research shows that this process has not been able to overturn the city’s segregated spatial order north-rich-white vs. south-poor-mestizo. It highlights that, in so doing, the existing urban order has allowed a continuum of gendered violence to flow from rural areas of armed conflict to the city as well as the re-emergence of forms of exploitation. This research therefore examines how such mechanisms hinder forcibly displaced people, particularly displaced women, from overcoming victimization and participate in deepening their socio-spatial exclusion. Through this research, I seek to contribute to the existing literature on global South cities by excavating the spatial and gender-related challenges faced by urban societies undergoing democratic transitions such as post-conflict situations. Based on eight months of fieldwork conducted in 2012, combined with media and discourse analysis as well as archival research undertaken up to 2016, the analysis brings to the fore displaced people’s itineraries of displacement, including the paths they have covered through their experiences of mourning, survival or resistance. Inspired by feminist political thinkers and geographers as well as postcolonial urban scholars, this research proposes a gendered right to the city aimed at two interrelated purposes. First, as a methodological platform from which to identify the hurdles faced by displaced people in their struggles to overcome their condition of victim and, second, as a venue to enable this population the chance to access transformative transitional justice in the cities they have come to inhabit. |
| Supervisor | Meger, Sara |
| Department | Gender Studies PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/garzon-ramirez_sonia.pdf |
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