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The article sets out to trace a conceptual history of the right to the city in Latin America. Based on a critical reading of Lefebvre's work, the essay reconstructs the theoretical frameworks that accompany the practical transformations of the right to the city in the region. The paper covers a period that starts with the publication of the book in 1968 and finishes with the decline of "the new left" in Latin America. The essay argues that, over this period, there are three different configurations of the right to the city, in which distinct theoretical displacements accompany the appropriations made by social movements and its inclusion into public policy arenas. During a first instance, associated with social movements, the notion is used to describe forms of collective action associated with housing and spatial injustice. A second configuration is marked by an institutional and bureaucratic appropriation, where Lefebvre's original conceptual coordinates transfigured. The right to the city is presented as an empty signifier and articulation emerges as a distinct political practice. In a third more recent configuration, social movements and collectives linked to social architecture actualize the notion of the right to the city around issues of construction and prefiguration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents some reflections and advances derived from an ongoing research project called "Territories of water and networks of practice and learning for the appropriation of knowledge and collaborative management in the southern edge of the Capital District". It focuses on problematizing and evidencing the underlying polysemy after the idea of the border applied to the city of Bogota, and especially to its southern territories. In this sense, it is argued that there are many and different edges interacting and overlapping each other, aiming at building a more complex and comprehensive view of the territory on the southern edge of the Capital District. The methodology is based on the revision of secondary sources, complemented with interviews with key informants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents results of the project "Territorial public policy in Medellín, actors, resources and opportunities. The public policies of forced displacement, and sexual and gender diversity". It proposes a reading of collective actions of the victim population in Medellín, regarding with territorial public policy in attention to victims. So it continues with a research agenda on these two issues and their relationships: the collective actions of the victims and territorial public policies in Medellín and Antioquia. In this text is developed a general context of the public policy of attention to the victims and a little history of the forced displacement policy. Also makes an approach to the collective actions of the victims in the territorial public policy, briefly discusses what happens from national policies to the territories, the relation expressed in the decentralization and territorial approaches. This paper ends with some considerations on the relationship at Medellín between collective action and public policy for the victims of the armed conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]