Building Hype: Libertarian Cities, Fictitious Development, and Speculative Dispossession in El Salvador's "Bitcoin City"

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作者
Gutierrez, Julio [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ North Carolina, Dept Anthropol, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA
关键词
libertarian cities; land dispossession; spectacle; Bitcoin City; El Salvador; NEOLIBERALISM;
D O I
10.1111/anti.13137
中图分类号
P9 [自然地理学]; K9 [地理];
学科分类号
0705 ; 070501 ;
摘要
Libertarian city projects are emerging as a new trend in capitalist urbanisation. One aspect about this trend is their location in rural Global South regions. The former raises questions about the role of these projects in the global land grab. This paper analyses the connection of libertarian city projects and land dispossession through the case of Bitcoin City in El Salvador. Data from news reports, surveys, and cadastral records show that the land dispossession associated with Bitcoin City is connected to a speculative dynamic generated by the project's intensive publicity. The media spectacle created by this publicity is intensifying pre-existing land grabbing patterns oriented toward the construction of real estate projects. I argue that this phenomenon is a result of the ruling elite's attempt to construct a strategy of economic growth around a logic of financial accumulation. To explain the rationality behind this effort and its material impacts, I introduce the concept of fictitious development. Los proyectos de ciudades libertarias est & aacute;n emergiendo como una nueva tendencia de desarrollo urbano capitalista. Una caracter & iacute;stica de esta tendencia es su ubicaci & oacute;n en regiones rurales del Sur Global. Lo anterior genera preguntas sobre el rol de estos proyectos en el acaparamiento global de tierras. Este art & iacute;culo analiza la conexi & oacute;n entre proyectos de ciudades libertarias y despojo de tierra en el caso de Bitcoin City en El Salvador. Informaci & oacute;n proveniente de reportes period & iacute;sticos, investigaci & oacute;n de campo y registros catastrales muestran que el despojo de tierras asociado con Bitcoin City est & aacute; vinculado a din & aacute;micas especulativas generadas por la intensiva publicidad del proyecto. El espect & aacute;culo medi & aacute;tico creado por dicha publicidad est & aacute; intensificando patrones preexistentes de acaparamiento de tierras orientados hacia la construcci & oacute;n de proyectos inmobiliarios. Este fen & oacute;meno es resultado del intento de la & eacute;lite gobernante de construir una estrategia de crecimiento econ & oacute;mico centrada en una l & oacute;gica de acumulaci & oacute;n financiera. Para explicar la racionalidad detr & aacute;s de este esfuerzo y sus efectos materiales, introduzco el concepto de desarrollo ficticio.
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