An approach in tension to decolonize the politics of living: body-spaces relationships

Abstract

Living is a concept in crisis. From clearly hegemonic-institutional views, International Organizations such as the United Nations through its UN-Habitat Program (2017) do not fail to point out the growing number of people globally who live in environments called cities. However, the discussions that are handled from these instances fail to realize that they work with a politically emptied concept of living. They omit that the current city has turned to the functionalist and commercialized character sustained in structural inequality, which is nourished by the exclusion zones that it in turn generates; reinforcing the existence of the abyssal line that the Portuguese sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2012; 2020) identifies and also present in Frantz Fanon's zones of being and non-being. The space is presented as a re-producer of colonial relations.