Practices of resilience

Technocratic and market-driven logics that inform planning systems and urban adaptation often exacerbate socio-spatial and climate inequalities. Facing this challenge, grassroots social movements build their own bottom-up resilience practices to contest neoliberal urban spaces. Building on her ethnographic work in the ecobarrios (eco-neighborhoods) of Chile, Visconti explores a case in which community actions were catapulted by the sociopolitical turmoil and the counter-events held during COP₂₅ in Santiago in December 2019. She observes that while ecobarrios have a huge potential for transformation, such transformation can only materialize insofar as they mobilize the right resources and avoid the “local trap.”