Keywords
territory
resistance
hope
home
house
autopoiesis
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Abstract
This paper proposes the application of art’s ownway of looking at the world. Specifically looking attwo different processes: hand-building of your ownhouse and the self-management of existence, thisway of looking allows us to recognize otherwiseunknown correspondences between them. Aftershowing how there are forms of control aiming tocontain politically and economically the urban poor,I propose two forces visible in self-constructionprojects: resistance and hope.The argument is informed by the work of philosopherssuch as Gilles Deleuze, Martin Heidegger,Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeauand Santiago Castro-Gómez, bringing togethersocial research on economics, urban processes,architecture, law and anthropology. These investigationsare put in conversation with works of art byartists like Maria Elvira Escallón and Kcho, and withevidence gathered in visits to women protagonistsof hand-buiding housing projects.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose, provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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