ESPACIOS DISIDENTES EN LOS PROCESOS DE ORDENACIÓN TERRITORIAL

The present paper aims to highlight the formation of dissident sectors hand in hand with the creation of exclusive spaces in urban environments. Within this general framework, the paper discusses the creation and use of urban spaces, and to a lesser extent rural ones, on the part of two significant groups: the gay and the squatting movements. Both regard the appropriation of certain city areas as a 'strategy of empowerment'. It also underlines the relation established between public and private property as well as the importance of the gentrification processes from the viewpoint of these dissident sectors. The sometimes very thin boundaries established between the meanings of inclusion, exclusion and dissidence are also pointed out, and both the relationship of these groups with the rest of society and their own internal contradictions are analysed.