https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/anti.12520?af=R Abstract

The Fearless Cities summit, coordinated by Barcelona en Com?? in June 2017, marked the first global gathering of the nascent "new municipalist" movement. Responding to the "imperative that geographers engage critically and creatively with the way localism is being articulated", this paper argues that the new municipalist initiatives are developing urban political strategies that successfully avoid the Local Trap. Rather than essentialising cities as inherently progressive or democratic, the municipal is instead becoming framed as a "strategic front" for developing a transformative politics of scale. Given this critical awareness, this nascent movement demonstrates how local loyalties can be mobilised as part of a progressive scalar strategy without falling into the trap of a "particular localism". What remains to be seen is whether these initiatives are able to develop a variegated scalar strategy of transformation that retains the democratic essence that underpins them.

Resumen

El encuentro Ciudades sin Miedo, organizado por Barcelona en Com?? en junio de 2017, marc?? la primera reuni??n mundial del naciente movimiento del "nuevo municipalismo". Respondiendo al "imperativo de que los ge??grafos estudien cr??tica y creativamente la manera en que se articula el localismo" (Featherstone et al. #anti12520-bib-0022: 181), este art??culo sostiene que las nuevas iniciativas municipalistas est??n desarrollando estrategias pol??ticas urbanas que evitan con ?xito la trampa local. En lugar de "esencializar" ciudades como inherentemente progresista o democr??tico, lo municipal se est?? enmarcando como un "frente estrat?gico" para desarrollar una pol??tica de escala que sea transformadora. Teniendo en cuenta esta conciencia cr??tica, este movimiento naciente demuestra c??mo se pueden movilizar las lealtades locales como parte de una estrategia multiescala progresiva sin caer en la trampa de un "localismo particular". Lo que queda por ver es si estas iniciativas son capaces de desarrollar una estrategia multiescala de transformaci??n que retenga la esencia democr??tica que las sustenta.

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