Políticas de vivienda en Marinaleda (Andalucía): un abordaje desde la producción social del hábitat.

The critique of academic colonialism in urban studies tends to suggest a pattern in which theories, ideologies, and urban policies invariably move from the central countries to the periphery, a reality to which they are not adapted. Within the framework of this critique and the search for non-parochialist urban studies, this paper presents a case in which these flows follow a reverse path, from the periphery to the center, so we tried to addressing a European case based on concepts, practices, and theories currently under development in Latin America. The production of housing in Marinaleda (Andalusia, Spain) shows connections with the cooperative experiences of Uruguay, with which it shares parameters of self-management and mutual aid. In Latin America, this type of experiences were analyzed from the perspective of Social Production of Habitat (PSH), from which the case is approached. The study is based on participant observations in Marinaleda, complemented by interviews with key informants and documentary analysis. The analysis shows that the European case is part of the most militant versions of the Latin American SHP, to the extent that - based on concrete connections - it recovers the forms of self-production typical of low-income sectors, disputes state resources, and bases its concrete practice on mutual aid, self-management, and rejection of private ownership. The article contributes to deepen the reflection on the complexity of the processes of diffusion of theories, ideologies, and transformative urban practices, presenting a little-known case in the international panorama. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]