Urban utopias and the decolonial perspectiveAbstract
We rehearse here a theoretical exercise on urban utopias, urban-natural, aiming at alternative society-nature relations and an equitable societal utopian project empowering social solidarity, other social relations of production, other ways of producing social (and differential) space, and other forms of everyday life capable of confronting capitalist accumulation.
From a contemporary Latin American horizon, it would be impossible to approach urban utopias and even possible expressions of the urban natural if not from a critical a perspective. Therefore, such task involves some steps. The first concerns utopia, urban utopias and nature. The second involves the demystification of Western modernity and other conceptions of the society-nature relationship, based on the decolonial turn. And the third, founded on Quijano, Walsh and Lefebvre, seeks to highlight the transformative role of everyday life along with alternative ways of producing material life and social existence. For pointing out that the paths to urban utopias must overcome social life, knowledge, and techniques colonization, as well as hegemonic ideologies and idealizations.
Keywords: Urban utopias; Urban natural; Decolonial turn; Lefebvre; Daily life