Las nociones de biopoder y de extraterritorialidad como claves para la lectura del proceso urbanizatorio de la ciudad de Córdoba

Abstract

This article proposes reading urban growth of the city of Córdoba, as a succession of exceptional situations. I intend to argue around the assumption that urbanized growth in Cordoba is caused by the convergence of two concepts: biopower and extraterritoriality. For the first issue I take Foucault’s concepts of biopower and biopolitics and connect them with the idea of urbanization of the city and the definition of habitable territories citizen, linked to economic and political power. A second concept is developed around the chronology of city ?s growth. In each of the periods considered, developments promoted by both the State and private actors emerge as areas of exclusion and the regulations exceptional situation that will be exacerbated in the recent developments in the form of gated communities. The spatial result of these exclusion zones in the urban fabric are an obvious manifestation of what in legal terms is defined as extraterritoriality.