The resistance from marginality. Urban transformation and social conflict in Barcelona

Nowadays it is not so known about how the goals of social justice shape a strong longterm community organization that enables the realization of urban spatial alternatives and inclusive cities. We can find these alternatives in different cities around the world. The communities that inhabit these new spaces generally express concerns about health, relationships and care, dimensions that help launch projects such as the creation of urban gardens, Housing, and other forms of urban commons. Through an analysis of the neighborhood mobilization around the transformative projects of urban spaces located in the neighborhoods of El Ràval, Sants-Badal and Vallcarca i els Penitents, we can discover common patterns of activism aimed at rebuilding the community and politically resignifying the urban context, thus addressing the importance that the care  relationship assumes within the community that struggles and resists. In particular, the relationship with alterity assumes a fundamental role because this occurs through self-organization and counter-hegemonic cultural practices in places where resistant marginalities intersect. The self-organization to which I refer is that of non-normative bodies that put life, care, affections and social reproduction relationships at the center before those of production.