Examinando por Autor "Dore, Mayane"

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COVID-19 in Madrid: vulnerability, precarity and essential work
(AnthroSource, 2021-09-26) Dore, Mayane
Spain was one of the first European countries to be hit by the Coronavirus. Until now, over 30,000 have died in the country. In the worst days, toll rates reached more than 800 deaths per day. Every morning, heartbreaking news would show the terrifying situation of the retirement homes, where thousands had died. Hospitals were overflowed, healthcare professionals were overwhelmed. In a warlike scene, Spain lived through a social trauma that it still struggles to heal. The National government responded to the pandemic crises with a double measure. On one hand, with the State of Emergency announcement and a 3-months nationwide shutdown. On the other hand, with economic measures to smooth as much as possible the social and economic impacts of the crises: ERTE furlough schemes and the approval of a minimum vital income. This article discusses the effects of those measures in the everyday life of workers in Madrid to highlight how Covid-19 impacted in different ways the working class across the city.
Design seen from the outside: an ethnography of institutional participatory design for the city-making
(Taylor and Francis, 2021-06-08) Dore, Mayane
This article in the intersection between anthropological and design knowledge, seeking to understand from an anthropological perspective the practice of participatory design in city-making projects. The research focuses on an urban redevelopment process in Sydney, critically analyzing the cultural and socio-political frameworks where PD operates. The article highlights the challenges to the democratic ideals of participation while working inside democratic institutions. This study expects to support the need for a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness of the social, economic, cultural, and environment dimensions that shape the design practice in an increasingly complex world, while acknowledging institutions as challenging arenas of work, but also potential sites for change. As a result, this article offers an exploratory framework to analyze participatory design projects from a cultural and political perspective. It suggests four exploratory areas: the social productions of neighbourhood; urban imaginaries; actors and governance; and everyday life authoritarianism.
Designing With or Against Institutions? Dilemmas of Participatory Design in Contested Cities
(Taylor and Francis, 2022-08-22) Dore, Mayane
This article explores growing concerns behind the potential instrumentalization of participatory design within democratic institutions and city-making projects. Drawing on ethnographic data collected during a participatory urban redevelopment in Sydney, it analyzes the wider political, economic, and cultural dynamics shaping participatory design (PD) in contested urban spaces. As a result, the article reflects on the institutional frameworks that challenged the democratic claims of PD, analyzing three interdependent levels of institutional constraints: ideology, governance, and narratives. In doing so, the article interrogates the role of expert-led urban governance, of neoliberal ideologies, and the power/knowledge relations in the building of a consensus narrative. Finally, the article concludes by highlighting the contingency of the so-called constraints, exploring an alternative conceptualization of institutions as social relations. Following this approach, designers may challenge constraints and simultaneously work with, against, and beyond institutions.
Governing through design: the politics of participation in neoliberal cities
(Taylor and Francis, 2022-10-06) Dore, Mayane
This article critically analyses an empirical case of how design mediates governing power in situated contexts. Using the Foucauldian concept of governmentality, the article examines the specific role of co-design to enable governance through the strategic use of design techniques and artefacts. Drawing on ethnographic research undertaken during the participatory urban redevelopment of Waterloo, Sydney, the article unpacks four concrete mechanism of governance through design: (1) the building of a seemingly coherent, stable and shared visions of Waterloo’s future; (2) the regulation of local knowledge production and political imagination; (3) the rendering of community technical through calculation techniques, standardisation, and the objectification of subjects; (4) the performance of diversity of choice while smoothing out differences. In conclusion, the article argues that, in Waterloo, the shift from top-down modes of urban governance to decentralised multi-stakeholders did not imply the reduction of state power but only supposed the rearrangement of governing power in the face of neoliberal urbanism.
Pacifying Police Units and private interests in Brazil
(Open Journal Systems, 2020-12-03) Dore, Mayane; Marías, Daniel; Bayarri, Gabriel
This article analyzes a concrete policy in the framework of Brazilian Public Security: the Pacifying Police Units (UPPs). It describes this policy and justifies, through an ethnographic case study, how the so-called “pacification of the favelas” articulates a logic of neoliberal urbanism and police infrastructure, understanding the residents of the favelas as potential consumers of their services. The article contextualizes the UPPs model as a paradigmatic case of public security in Latin America in which the discourse of violence/pacification is the main catalyst for private investments. More specifically, the article demonstrates how private companies resort to proximity conflicts mediation as a way of avoiding the judicialization of conflicts with the residents after the “Pacification”. With this case, we expect to illustrate the patrimonialism and clientelism that shapes the Brazilian State and its ambiguous relationships between private and public interests.