The heritage and construction of the differentiated space of the alt-right

This research argues that the alternative right is a new political movement with a membership that is substantially different from the militants that have traditionally occupied the political space of the right or extreme right. The characterization of the alternative right is confusing, since most of its scholars do it under the American parameters. Thus, this work aims to clarify some questions about the political space from which the alternative right is born, observe its characteristics and make sure that these demands are reflected in top-level and current political actors, to conclude that it is a space under construction. , but differentiated from other nearby ideological currents

The Jewel of the Crown: Co-optative capacity during austerity in Cardiff and San Sebastian-Donostia

By comparing Cardiff and San Sebastián-Donostia (SSD), the paper argues that local governments’ capacity to co-opt provides a relevant approach to understanding changes in citizen participation under fiscal austerity. The argument is based on the close interrelationship among co-optation, legitimacy and procedural regulation. These concepts help to understand how citizen participation is maintained in periods of instability, experienced by city governments during and in the aftermath of the 2010 financial crisis. Local government’s legitimacy is maintained insofar as it shows capacity to co-opt through negotiation, capture, technicalisation of processes and minimisation of conflict. These elements work in tandem with factors of urban austerity embedded into a longer-term neoliberalising discourse (Peck, 2012). Our findings show that both city governments maintain their legitimacy but in this process Cardiff Council’s co-optative capacity weakens in contrast to SSD

A participative method to build bridges between sustainability science and anticipatory governance at Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve (Basque Country)

A key-goal for governance is the translation of knowledge into planning. We recruited 125 representatives from society, technical-political and the scientific community in a participation process focused on the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve. We analysed their testimonials by using qualitative and quantitative methods, including Computer Assisted Qualitative Contents Analysis. We validated consensuses for future management, detailing criteria for a sustainable, collaborative, and anticipatory governance. The consensuses that stood out as most important have been the following: 1. Urdaibai should work towards human well-being and prosperity. 2. Synergies between institutions and society through participation strategies are necessary. 3. It is important to have a political leadership to guide governance. We can state that the participatory process carried out allowed participants to express shared horizons on future strategies. We present the methodology of this process as well as its results since we consider that both can be useful for managers of protected areas. Un objetivo clave de la gobernanza es la traducción del conocimiento en planificación. Para ello, reclutamos a 125 representantes de la sociedad, de la comunidad técnico-política y de la científica, para que tomaran parte en un proceso de participación centrado en la Reserva de la Biosfera de Urdaibai. Analizamos sus testimonios utilizando métodos cualitativos y cuantitativos, incluido el Análisis de Contenidos Cualitativos Asistido por Ordenador. Validamos consensos para la gestión futura y detallamos criterios para una gobernanza sostenible, colaborativa y anticipatoria. Los consensos que los participantes han destacado como más importantes han sido los siguientes: 1. Urdaibai debe trabajar por el bienestar y la prosperidad de sus habitantes. 2. Son necesarias sinergias entre las instituciones y la sociedad a través de estrategias de participación. 3. Es importante contar con un liderazgo político que oriente la gobernanza. Podemos afirmar que el proceso participativo llevado a cabo ha permitido a los participantes expresar horizontes compartidos sobre estrategias de futuro. Presentamos la metodología de este proceso, así como, sus resultados, ya que consideramos que ambos pueden ser de utilidad para los gestores de las áreas protegidas. Available from: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-139

Crisis de la gobernanza urbana y gestión de los comunes

El corto recorrido de las experiencias de gobernanza urbana en nuestros contextos más cercanos contrasta con el amplio desarrollo de las teorías y de los discursos políticos sobre los beneficios de esta “nueva” forma de gobernar. Su desprestigio democrático ha venido vinculado a la apuesta prioritaria de las administraciones públicas en favor de los grupos económicos, financieros e inmobiliarios como los agentes influyentes en las policy networks, relegando al ámbito anecdótico y marginal las organizaciones sociales presentes en el territorio. Los efectos de esta política, extrapolables a otros ámbitos además del urbano, ha generado una importante depredación de los bienes comunes en nuestra sociedad que resulta urgente frenar.Los movimientos urbanos, junto a otros movimientos sociales, conscientes de esta situación, apuntan desde hace un tiempo hacia una reflexión que rompa con el binomio de público-privado, no sólo en lo relacionado con unos espacios sociales determinados, sino con una gestión más amplia de los denominados bienes comunes. En esta línea, algunos autores vinculados con estas redes, hablan ya de democracia de lo común. El objetivo de este artículo es, por un lado, ordenar algunas cuestiones sobre el proceso que ha llevado a estas reflexiones, y por otro, identificar algunos de los caminos que a nivel teórico y práctico abren para el trabajo comunitario o la acción colectiva de base territorial de dichos movimientos. El corto recorrido de las experiencias de gobernanza urbana en nuestros contextos más cercanos contrasta con el amplio desarrollo de las teorías y de los discursos políticos sobre los beneficios de esta “nueva” forma de gobernar. Su desprestigio democrático ha venido vinculado a la apuesta prioritaria de las administraciones públicas en favor de los grupos económicos, financieros e inmobiliarios como los agentes influyentes en las policy networks, relegando al ámbito anecdótico y marginal las organizaciones sociales presentes en el territorio. Los efectos de esta política, extrapolables a otros ámbitos además del urbano, ha generado una importante depredación de los bienes comunes en nuestra sociedad que resulta urgente frenar.Los movimientos urbanos, junto a otros movimientos sociales, conscientes de esta situación, apuntan desde hace un tiempo hacia una reflexión que rompa con el binomio de público-privado, no sólo en lo relacionado con unos espacios sociales determinados, sino con una gestión más amplia de los denominados bienes comunes. En esta línea, algunos autores vinculados con estas redes, hablan ya de democracia de lo común. El objetivo de este artículo es, por un lado, ordenar algunas cuestiones sobre el proceso que ha llevado a estas reflexiones, y por otro, identificar algunos de los caminos que a nivel teórico y práctico abren para el trabajo comunitario o la acción colectiva de base territorial de dichos movimientos.The short path of the experiences of urban governance in our contexts contrasts with the broad development of theories and political discourse on the benefits of this “new” form of government. Its democratic discredit has been clearly linked to priority commitment of the government in favor of economic, financial and real estate groups as influential actors in policy networks, relegating social organizations in the territory to the anecdotal and marginal area. The effects of this policy, apart from urban areas could also be applied to other fields, has led to a significant depletion of the commons in our society that it is urgent to stop.Urban movements, along with other social movements, aware of this situation, aim lately to a reflection that breaks with the public-private pairing, not only in relation to a specific social space, but with a broader management of so-called commons. In this line, some authors associated with these networks, are already talking about democracy commons. The objective of this paper is, first, to order some questions about the process that led to these reflections, and secondly, to identify some of the ways that theoretical and practical level open for community work or territorial collective action of such movements

Gobernanza Urbana y Participación Comunitaria. Los Casos de Barcelona, Bilbao y Pamplona (Urban Governance and Community Involvement. Cases of Barcelona, Bilbao and Pamplona)

This article is based on a detailed study of three cases (Barcelona, ​​Pamplona and Bilbao) trying to address from a theoretical perspective a more current characterization of urban movements, joining in a framework of analysis the contributions of the American and European schools study of social movements. To do this, we present the results of empirical research conducted in the districts of the three cities and perform a comparison of the most important variables. This research shows that urban movements have become increasing their ability to access aided by the opening of opportunities on local governance (EOP) and have driven participatory processes articulated from a communitarian methodology (repertoires), intended to promote democratic management of the city (speech) from reticular logic (organization) oriented at re-structuring of society, as a prelude to increasing its influence on urban policies. Este art&iacute;culo se basa en un estudio en profundidad de tres casos (Barcelona, Pamplona y Bilbao) tratando de abordar desde una perspectiva te&oacute;rica una caracterizaci&oacute;n m&aacute;s actual de los movimientos urbanos, aunando en un marco de an&aacute;lisis los aportes de las escuelas americana y europea de estudio de los movimientos sociales. Para ello, presentamos los resultados de la investigaci&oacute;n emp&iacute;rica realizada en los barrios de las tres ciudades y realizamos una comparativa de las variables m&aacute;s importantes. Este estudio demuestra que los movimientos urbanos se han transformado aumentando su capacidad de acceso ayudados por&nbsp; la apertura de oportunidades provocada por la gobernanza local (EOP) y han impulsado procesos participativos que, articulados desde la metodolog&iacute;a comunitaria (repertorios), pretenden provocar un impulso de la gesti&oacute;n democr&aacute;tica de la ciudad (discurso) a partir de l&oacute;gicas reticulares (organizaci&oacute;n) orientadas a la re-vertebraci&oacute;n de la sociedad, como paso previo al aumento de su&nbsp; influencia sobre las pol&iacute;ticas urbanas. DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2703837</p

Transforming Cities: Opportunities and Challenges of Urban Regeneration in the Basque Country

Urban renewal policies seek to reverse physical, economic, and social decline in particular areas or neighborhoods—or in whole cities. Such policies are typically associated with public sector solutions to problems in the urban decline of former industrialized spaces that involve developing new economic activities by means of transforming such spaces once more into dynamic and attractive areas. Transforming Cities explores the multiple dimensions—incorporating physical-morphological, economic, functional, cultural, and residential elements—of urban renewal policies in the Basque Country and beyond. Individual chapters discuss urban regeneration in Bilbao, the legal framework of urban planning as a public function, the "smart city" model of sustainable and intelligent urban spaces, and culture as a strategic element for the reactivation, renewal, and development of new urban models, including the specific case of cultural heritage as a factor in the urban regeneration of Vitoria-Gasteiz, the legal implications of expropriating cultural assets, public and private collaboration to create cultural clusters, and, finally, the tensions that exist between institutionally driven visions of such transformation and more community-based approaches.This book was published with generous financial support from the Basque Government.Introduction by Arantxa Rodríguez and Joseba Juaristi ? 1. A Model of Regeneration? Urban Redevelopment and Policy-led Gentrification in Bilbao by Arantxa Rodríguez, Pedro Abramo, and Lorenzo Vicario ? 2. Some Reflections on Urban Revitilization and Regeneration in Central Asturias and Metropolitan Bilbao (1980-2010) by Joseba Juaristi Linacero ? 3. Urban Rehabilitation and the Necessity of Conservation: A New Approach by Pilar Garrido Gutiérrez ? 4. RDI and Urban Sustainability: The "Smart City" Model in the Basque Autonomous Community by Estibaliz Rodríguez Núñez and Iñaki Periàñez Cañadillas ? 5. Cultural Policy and Urban Regeneration: Exploring Conditions for Renewal Effectiveness by Beatriz Plaza ? 6. Cultural Heritage as a Factor in the Urban Regeneration of Vitoria-Gasteiz by Agustín Azkarate and Ander de la Fuente ? 7. The Expropriation of Cultural Assets in Urban Regeneration: On the Ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in Kozacio?lu v. Turkey, February 19, 2009 by Carmen Agoues Mendizabal ? 8. Urban Development and Commercial Invigoration through Cultural Clusters in Peripheral Neighborhoods of Bilbao by Gloria Aparicio and Jon Charterina ? 9. Power and Potential: Enclosure and Eruption in Bilbao by Igor Ahedo Gurrutxaga and Imanol Telleria ? Inde