Philosophy of nature and spaces of hope in David Harvey

The city has always been a landscape that shapes us socially. Its spaces provide us with health, emotions, rights — or, alternatively, exclusion, isolation, illness, and economic, social, and even aesthetic poverty. The city produces both material and symbolic inequality. Spaces such as domestic gar...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Barahona Riera, Dorelia
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2023
Country:Costa Rica
Institution:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repository:Portal de Revistas UNA
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:www.revistas.una.ac.cr:article/21217
Online Access:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/praxis/article/view/21217
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:City
nature
gardens
social ecologism
Costa Rica
David Harvey
Ciudad
jardines
naturaleza
ecologismo social
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Summary:The city has always been a landscape that shapes us socially. Its spaces provide us with health, emotions, rights — or, alternatively, exclusion, isolation, illness, and economic, social, and even aesthetic poverty. The city produces both material and symbolic inequality. Spaces such as domestic gardens and public parks can serve as places of hope and restoration. We propose the idea of an 'emotional and restitutive city,' where territorial equality and epistemic justice are put into practice through social ecology and the thought of David Harvey