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un interesantísimo post de Juan Freire hiperlinkeado al infinito.
Una entrevista al antropólogo
Arjun Appadurai presenta una serie de conceptos más que útiles para pensar la ciudad:
Airoots: What are the problems with the concept of participation?
AA: Words like empowerment and participation can descend into clichés very easily. It is more or less meaningful in alliance with other concepts – like informed citizenship. Thus a participant is significant if he is a more informed participant. However there is something more that has to be factored in. Along with being informed, we have to ask the question if the participant is given a voice.
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Telling your story, narrating lives is a very important space within which you have to frame the question of information. The idea of the story, the right to tell your story is an old civilizational resource. Unfortunately when classified as folklore it becomes a top-down phenomenon. But it can and should be expressed in bottom- up ways and most groups and organizations which recognize this allow for such articulation. […]
La tecnología tiene el poder de hacer valer el derecho de la gente a narrar su propia historia pero dicho proceso ciertamente no es automático. El concepto de ciudadanía informada parece ser la clave para que la participación realmente esté orientada en función de las necesidades de los directamente interesados.
