Iago Lekue

University of the Basque Country | UPV/EHU

Este artículo cartografía el despliegue de las innovaciones democráticas institucionales y diversas expresiones de participación que emergen desde lógicas irruptivas al objeto de mejorar la democracia “con” o “frente” a la institución. En diálogo con las reflexiones más recientes y punteras en la academia, en el texto se ponen en valor tres element...

The literature on democratic innovations is moving towards an agenda that recovers the weight of protest and social movements in democratic deepening. Reinforcing this approach, this text shows an experience in which institutional and social movement actors share a common agreement based on principles of collaborative governance strategy for territ...

The literature on democratic innovations is moving forward on an emerging agenda that reclaims the weight of protest and social movements in the deepening of democracy. To reinforce this approach, this text shows an experience in which institutional and social movement-actors in Northern Basque Country interact, firstly, in terms of territorial dev...

Urban territories and cities have become very important actors in the world. This article presents the theoretical bases to analize the urban transformations caused by neoliberalism and its creation and destruction of deindustrialized cities through in the last decades. On the one hand, it pays attention to how the changes in the city government st...

Walking, feeling, breathing in, and getting lost in the streets are the best ways to get to know a city. When moving through a city in this way, we can see social imbalances, segregated spaces and neighborhoods, and changes in the landscape. Beneath what lies in plain sight lie mechanisms and regulatory apparatus. These include norms and socio-inst...

Walking, feeling, breathing in, and getting lost in the streets are the best ways to get to know a city. When moving through a city in this way, we can see social imbalances, segregated spaces and neighborhoods, and changes in the landscape. Beneath what lies in plain sight lie mechanisms and regulatory apparatus. These include norms and socio-inst...

In the late 1960s and for the next twenty years, a process of deindustrialization took place in many large European cities that would completely change their future direction. After this period of economic decline, some of these cities were again able to attract capital and return to cycles of accumulation. Thus, we intend to understand this proces...

The phenomenon of deindustrialization, as well as the vertiginous changes dependent on financial capital, produced new trends in the models of organization and production of western cities such as Bilbao. The socio-spatial organization and structuring of the ‘new city’ begins to be a topic of great importance. It is in this sense that the concepts...

Este capítulo profundiza en las relaciones entre los gobiernos locales y la ciudadanía (previamente organizada o no) para la elaboración de políticas urbanas, fijándonos especialmente en los modos de gobernanza desde una perspectiva teórico-analítica inspirada en el enfoque estratégico-relacional (EER) de Bob Jessop, que entiende el Estado como una...