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Dossier: Ciudades latinoamericanas en tiempos de crisis
Crises have ceased to be an extraordinary moment or exception in human life and have instead become a rule. As such, their study today cannot be limited to a simple empirical description of the phenomena underlying social conjunctures. On the contrary, a deep reflection on their meanings, both in reality and in knowledge, has become necessary. Based on this premise, this article proposes approaching the notion of crisis as a tool and dimension of analysis that allows for the reconstruction of the complex, dynamic, and contradictory puzzle that represents the contemporary world. This world has experienced significant social, cultural, artistic, political, economic, and environmental transformations over the past decade, fundamentally triggered by the severe global economic recession that began in 2008 in the United States and its financial system, and intensified a decade later with the social paralysis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the global health crisis.
One of the spaces where these manifestations are most strongly expressed is in Latin American cities. In these urban environments, various processes, phenomena, and dynamics have altered urban life, the socio-spatial fabric, and the cityscape. This issue of Arista Crítica seeks to utilize the category of crisis as a central axis of analysis to address and problematize different phenomena and contexts that afflict Latin American cities and urban spaces. In this sense, it aims to incorporate perspectives and viewpoints from different fields of knowledge about social reality and human expressions that explore the various uses, conceptions, and meanings of the category of crisis. This includes theoretical and philosophical reflections, literary essays, analytical and/or explanatory research, and case studies on different issues affecting urban life in Latin America, such as the world of work, unemployment, and labor informality; poverty, exclusion, and migration; violence, delinquency, and organized crime; housing shortages, major urban infrastructure projects, and large-scale real estate developments; the deterioration of urban equipment, services, and mobility systems; changes in identities, consumption patterns, and urban cultural heritage; environmental problems, urban land degradation, and the appropriation of natural resources in cities; and all the tensions, conflicts, and challenges currently faced by social actors and the urban population of Latin America.
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