Triple espacialidad en la participación ciudadana no institucionalizada: nuevas agendas de cambio social en Cali, Colombia

Abstract

Faced with the crisis of our democratic systems, expressed in the different economic, environmental, and social collapses; and more recently in the socioeconomic consequences surrounding the management of the health crisis generated by COVID-19, Latin America today is a political scenario that has redefined the way in which citizen participation is deployed. Taking as a case study what happened in the Cali City, based on the socio-spatial (re) configurations, caused by the national strike in Colombia 2021, the role played by triple spatiality in this entire process of change will be analyzed. The central argument consists of the identification of the space that operate around this new form of non-institutionalized citizen participation: the micro/neighborhood space of social organizations, the virtual space of social networks and the urban macro space of the great urban mobilizations. We will review how this (triple) articulation of space and the emergence of new urban/political actors has occurred, in addition to its enormous transforming capacity.