Should a Human Rights-Based Approach to the Homeless be used in the Neoliberal City? Case Study in Bogotá, Colombia
This article reflects on why cities’ beautification frameworks often replace a human rights-based understanding of homeless people. Using Bogotá as a case study, this paper shows that the local government uses a neoliberal discourse regarding the citizens’ perception of safety. This discourse empha...
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This article reflects on why cities’ beautification frameworks often replace a human rights-based understanding of homeless people. Using Bogotá as a case study, this paper shows that the local government uses a neoliberal discourse regarding the citizens’ perception of safety. This discourse emphasizes the importance of having clean, orderly, and beautiful public spaces in the city to give a perception of safety. Furthermore, this discourse, based on the perception of safety, justifies the implementation of urban renewal projects in the city centre, aimed at beautifying deteriorated buildings and neighbourhoods for attracting capital and tourism to boost the city’s economy. These factors overshadow the human rights-based national laws for the homeless as well as the decisions of Colombia’s Constitutional Court.
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| spelling | doaj-art-c9cf19081f1b470ba5c83f4b76ea6eaf2025-08-20T01:48:02ZengUniversidad de los Andes, Facultad de DerechoLatin American Law Review2619-48802022-02-011810.29263/lar08.2022.07Should a Human Rights-Based Approach to the Homeless be used in the Neoliberal City? Case Study in Bogotá, ColombiaCristina Escobar Correa0Independent (Colombia) This article reflects on why cities’ beautification frameworks often replace a human rights-based understanding of homeless people. Using Bogotá as a case study, this paper shows that the local government uses a neoliberal discourse regarding the citizens’ perception of safety. This discourse emphasizes the importance of having clean, orderly, and beautiful public spaces in the city to give a perception of safety. Furthermore, this discourse, based on the perception of safety, justifies the implementation of urban renewal projects in the city centre, aimed at beautifying deteriorated buildings and neighbourhoods for attracting capital and tourism to boost the city’s economy. These factors overshadow the human rights-based national laws for the homeless as well as the decisions of Colombia’s Constitutional Court. https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/index.php/lar/article/view/4714Homelesshuman rights-based approach to homelessnesscriminalizationurban renewal projectspolicecitizens |
| spellingShingle | Cristina Escobar Correa Should a Human Rights-Based Approach to the Homeless be used in the Neoliberal City? Case Study in Bogotá, Colombia Latin American Law Review Homeless human rights-based approach to homelessness criminalization urban renewal projects police citizens |
| title | Should a Human Rights-Based Approach to the Homeless be used in the Neoliberal City? Case Study in Bogotá, Colombia |
| title_full | Should a Human Rights-Based Approach to the Homeless be used in the Neoliberal City? Case Study in Bogotá, Colombia |
| title_fullStr | Should a Human Rights-Based Approach to the Homeless be used in the Neoliberal City? Case Study in Bogotá, Colombia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Should a Human Rights-Based Approach to the Homeless be used in the Neoliberal City? Case Study in Bogotá, Colombia |
| title_short | Should a Human Rights-Based Approach to the Homeless be used in the Neoliberal City? Case Study in Bogotá, Colombia |
| title_sort | should a human rights based approach to the homeless be used in the neoliberal city case study in bogota colombia |
| topic | Homeless human rights-based approach to homelessness criminalization urban renewal projects police citizens |
| url | https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/index.php/lar/article/view/4714 |
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