TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVISM AND BORDER URBAN SPACES

POSSIBILITIES OF A LIBERTARIAN PRAXIS

Abstract

This paper discusses possibilities to transnationalization of activisms and its meaning for border cities. It approaches the border city as a spatiality that provides opportunities for emancipative urban movements, using their geographical situation of meeting between two territorial States and, mainly, using their hybrid space. Although, at first, the frontier is presented as a spatial expression of instituted heteronomy, the border city has conditions to catalyze movements and also contains nodes of an emancipative movement network. The possibilities of spatial practices developed through border urban space, the libertarian praxis in these and through these spaces and the resources that the frontier condition of determinate cities presents for the transnational activism are the focuses of this paper discuss.