Revisiting Medellin's Governance Arrangement After the Dust Settled

Author:

Betancur John J.1,Brand Peter2ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

2. School of Urban and Regional Planning, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin, Colombia

Abstract

Governance is a polysemic prescription for contemporary government and at an urban level has been instrumental in some radical and often striking reshaping of cities. This paper examines the interests and power structures behind those changes through the critical examination of the case of Medellin, Colombia, until recently a model of “good governance,” internationally acknowledged for its early millennium transformation from “murder capital to model city.” Based on extensive literature reviews and interviews, we unveil the forces underlying concrete governance practices. Major characteristics emerging from this perspective concern i) market hegemony, ii) the disempowerment of grass-roots movements and iii) the influence of illegal actors in the complex and shifting dynamics within and between the city's major players. The notion of both “good governance” and model practice are strongly revisited.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Urban Studies,Sociology and Political Science

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