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- Digital narratives & urban artivist networks. A theoretical-methodological approach.Publication . Carvalho, Isabel Cristina; Viegas, Sílvia LeiriaThis article explores the disciplinary and thematic convergences of digital media art, urban life and social activism (in the digital plan), merging into a cohesive exploration of digital narratives and their role in supporting and boosting urban artivist networks. In fact, digital tools provide unique opportunities to broaden the scope and impact of socially-engaged art, primarily through artivist practices, while highlighting and emphasising inspiring existences and positions concerning urban rights and building citizenship. As such, in this exploratory essay, we seek to stress the importance of building counter-narratives from the grassroots based on ways of life, habits, customs and everyday experiences historically overlooked by dominant systems while at the same time building a theoretical-methodological framework to deconstruct urban strategies and practices and support different forms of self-representation. We will use two complementary dimensions to build our approach: (1) collecting, interpreting and processing data and (2) giving visibility to the referred alternative narratives. Regarding urban processes and physical spaces, these dimensions follow Lefebvre's structural thinking on the production of social space and the right to the city [1] [2], pointing out activist methodologies, e.g. those following principles of social justice, human rights, inclusion and equity, among others giving voice and space to the vulnerable individuals and communities.
- A interseccionalidade como lente para o diálogo com o espaço urbano e o digital: Leituras sobre gênero, raça e classe no eixo Sul-Sudeste brasileiroPublication . Fontes Leite, Gabriella; Viegas, Sílvia LeiriaO artigo aborda a ideia norteadora de interseccionalidade, com ênfase em três marcadores intercruzados — gênero, classe, raça —, em diálogo com o espaço urbano e o digital. Começa com uma apresentação da região selecionada para a leitura do tema, o eixo Sul-Sudeste brasileiro, para explicar, sob perspetiva histórica, lógicas de opressão e privilégio contemporâneas e sua relação com a materialidade; e as tecnologias digitais como lugar de mediação e reprodução destes processos. O objetivo é usar esta lente interseccional para perceber práticas urbanas relacionadas com mulheres pobres e racializadas, e como esta realidade se relaciona com as suas representações midiáticas. Para tal, recorre-se à construção de um quadro teórico-conceitual estruturante, assente numa revisão bibliográfica crítica sobre essa ideia de interseccionalidade e sua relação com a discriminação e o privilégio; à construção de um quadro empírico sobre desigualdades no acesso digital e seu impacto em termos de acesso aos benefícios das tecnologias; à seleção de plataformas digitais, concretamente de redes sociais que informem sobre performances identitárias para a escolha de casos de estudo ilustrativos; e à análise de casos concretos para aprender, por um lado, com paradigmas de exclusão, opressão e invisibilidade e, por outro lado, com casos de resistência inspiradora conducentes a um feminismo digital apontado para inclusão (social, espacial, urbana) e transformação social.
- Diversity, interculturalism & community building in the Algarve: preliminary findings for imagining a digital road map of hopePublication . Viegas, Sílvia LeiriaThe Algarve is the first Portuguese region with more immigrants per inhabitant, and the second with the highest rate of immigration, after Greater Lisbon. These immigrants bring with them different cultures, traditions, religious beliefs and customs, and face many barriers to local integration. Indeed the Algarve is a diverse reality with various forms of social discrimination and spatial segregation affecting many, including economic and forced migrants. The aim of the article is to identify the urban specificities of the region; the accounts of these immigrants about their living conditions, especially in terms of housing and employment, their support activities and cultural interactions; and the digital media that transmit and amplify perceptions of threat, but also make visible (self-)representations and opportunities. Another aim is to provide a political-philosophical lens for the production of a digital road map. Following Freire’s and Harvey’s ideas of hope, the reflections intersect with an exploratory empirical socio-spatial and digital recognition of Faro (and Estoi) and Loulé (and Quarteira). The article argues that intercultural dialogues, interactions and relationships based on local experiences and situated knowledge can help us imagine alternatives and more just worlds. Conclusions discuss the analytical guidelines of this digital road map (in terms of urban layers, migrant dots, digital fluxes) and the guidance it provides to support diversity, interculturalism and community building.