To Tie Acrat Chaos: Reflexions on Production of Space, Squatting and Ecological Democratic Politics

Authors: Monteón López Y

DOI: 10.23880/phij-16000225

Volume 5, Issue 1

Abstract

In this article I explore the notion of an ecological and democratic politics from the Henri Lefebvre’s materialist thesis of production of space. In frist place I critique the notion of space understood as mere abstraction and I asume the thesis of the material production of space in order to establish the place of politics not as mere abstraction but as a concrete place where our corporeal life is developed. In this sense I present an aproximation to a democratic politic from Rancière’s perspective, that far from sees this excercise as consensus, introduces it as a conflictive activity in which no one has a definitive tittle to execute it. In this sense with the aim of radicalize this posture and think the politic outside the limits of anthropocentrism I add to this discussion the ecological critique of Timothy Morton. By last from this theoretical framework I explane two practical cases of squatting in where this democratic and ecological politics has been exerciced.

Keywords: Lefebvre; Production of space; Rancière; Democracy; Politics; Ecological thinking; Morton; Squatting

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