Browsing by Autor "Friederike Fleischer"

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Contentious memories: History and urban redevelopment in Bogotá, Colombia
(Taylor & Francis, 2020) Catalina Muñoz Rojas; Friederike Fleischer
In 2004, the city of Bogotá designated the historic working-class neighborhood of Las Aguas an “Urban Renovation Zone.” Subsequently, in 2012 the Universidad de los Andes proposed a massive redevelopment plan called Progresa Fenicia, with city approval. Redevelopment is imminent and residents’ responses have been diverse. In an effort to contribute to the literature that seeks to enrich and nuance our understanding of urban renewal processes and gentrification, this article explores the subjective experiences of long-term residents and the role of history and memory in such processes. Our analysis is based on participant observation and 31 oral histories from long-term residents of the small urban area designated for intervention. Through them, we seek to illuminate how residents understand their personal experience of the transformation of the neighborhood, and their part in urban renewal processes that extend into the past but also the future. We emphasize the agency of long-term residents, arguing that the past and memory play a significant role in how people define place, position themselves vis-à-vis urban interventions, and shape their experiences of urban redevelopment beyond monetary issues, class displacement, physical landscape, and housing policy.
Next Generation Urban Governance: Framing and Localising Digitally Exposed Youth Participation in Colombia's Intermediary Cities
(RELX Group (Netherlands), 2025) Philipp Rode; Friederike Fleischer; Lina Martínez; Nuno F. da Cruz; Carlos M. Duarte; Maria Cecilia Dedios; Richard Lemoine-Rodríguez; Hannes Taubenböck; Carolin Biewer; Olga Lucia Sorzano
The Chinese Diaspora: Exploring Chinese Migration in Colombia
(2012) Friederike Fleischer
The Chinese diaspora is the largest and most extensive among the world's migrant populations. Recent estimates put the number of Chinese emigrants at 40 million people. Far from being a homogenous group, members of the Chinese diaspora have diverse economic, cultural, social, educational, and personal backgrounds as well as very different life stories and emigration experiences. Despite the growing interest in the Pacific Rim and the constant immigration of Chinese to the Americas through the 20th century, there is very little information about their migration to Colombia. This article explores the topic from a historical point of view in order to fill this void. The little that is known about Chinese migrants to Colombia is presented in the context of a discussion on the diaspora in order to highlight the transnationality and multiplicity of identities among this migrant group. The article also examines the similarities and differences between Chinese migration to Colombia and other countries in Latin America and on other continents, relating these particularities to local contexts.
Vivienda de interés social y pandemia en Colombia. Disrupciones en las formas de habitar
(National University of Colombia, 2022) Friederike Fleischer; Adriana Hurtado Tarazona
La vivienda de interés social construida en la última década en Colombia muestra el recrudecimiento de la urbanización periférica que venía desde los años 90: series de conjuntos cerrados en áreas de expansión urbana desconectados de los centros, con problemas de acceso a bienes y servicios vitales, y con estrictas regulaciones de comportamiento en reglamentos de propiedad horizontal. En este artículo, resultado de una evaluación cualitativa y cuantitativa en cuatro regiones del país, mostramos las disrupciones sociales y económicas que trajo la pandemia a la vida de los residentes de estos conjuntos. Mostramos que la pandemia no solo afectó la vida cotidiana de los hogares y su situación económica, sino que también alteró las normas de convivencia: por un lado, se flexibilizaron las estrictas prohibiciones de actividad económica en las viviendas; por el otro, los protocolos de bioseguridad endurecieron restricciones que refuerzan las fronteras entre el adentro y afuera de los conjuntos. Analizar esta crisis de la propiedad horizontal periférica señala la importancia de repensar la organización de la vida colectiva en estas viviendas.