Microcitizenships: Fractious Forms of Urban Belonging after Argentine Neoliberalism

Centner, Ryan

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.2011.01050.x

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“…Beyond generating headaches for central government bureaucracies and costs for developers, municipal delays also create temporal disincentives for local residents to seek housing within the district. In short, state‐imposed waiting aimed to construct the poor as what Centner () calls “transposable citizens,” who can secure the right to housing, but only by doing so elsewhere. The stigmatizing implications were not lost on housing‐seekers.…”

Section: Enduring Institutionalized Waitingmentioning

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“For Now, We Are in Waiting”: Negotiating Time in Chile's Social Housing System

Koppelman

2018

City & Community

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Waiting for low‐income housing is an increasingly common experience of the urban poor in both the global North and South, although little attention has been paid to its effects. Engaging a growing literature on time in systems of social provision, this article presents an ethnographic case study of waiting among poor housing‐seekers in a peripheral district of Santiago, Chile. While illustrating how waiting is produced by state policies and practices that position homeless city‐dwellers as passive clients, it challenges existing studies that argue that waiting produces durable submission to dominant state projects. In contrast, it shows that housing‐seekers in Santiago actively negotiated a denigrating temporality of state provision through multiple practices, including collective contestation of arbitrary delays. By dissecting the conditions that enabled contentious responses to waiting for housing in Chile, this article aims to elucidate how such temporal contestation may emerge (or be precluded) in other contexts.

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Section: Enduring Institutionalized Waitingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“For Now, We Are in Waiting”: Negotiating Time in Chile's Social Housing System

Koppelman

2018

City & Community

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“…V tomto smyslu sousedství patrně nikdy nenabyde oné virtuality obrazů měst z turistických pohlednic či televizního přenosu zahájení olympijských her. Ryan Centner (2011) se ve své studii městských čtvrtí Buenos Aires zaměřuje na nové formy přináležení k městu. Koncept sociálních práv (Marshall 1992) rozšiřuje dále k pojmu městského sociálního občanství (Walker 2006), které pojímá jako soubor aktivit vedoucích k nárokování na využití konkrétního městského prostoru.…”

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“…Tato symbolika neadresnosti romských příběhů je pak, domnívám se, spíše nezamýšlenou funkcí reprodukce marginálního postavení Romů, postavení mimo českou společnost ústřední solidarity. Události na Masné připomínají negativní vlivy gentrifi kačních procesů na nízkopříjmové obyvatele městských čtvrtí, o kterých se v sociologii města diskutuje (Centner 2011); je-li chudoba etnizována, procesy se ještě posilují (Blokland 2009). Gentrifi kace, ve smyslu zvelebování zchátralých částí měst, se tak v případě oblasti Bratislavská/Cejl i Masná ukázala být skutečně problematickou, pokud se její součástí jaksi mimochodem stává vytrácení stigmatizované etnické stopy paměti míst.…”

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Krajina vzpomínek. Kdo kreslí mapu „brněnského Bronxu“?

Janků¹

2013

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This article focuses on the process of urban place identity creation through culturally settled forms of remembering and the reproduction of social inequalities through the exclusion of memories of marginalized inhabitants. The theoretical base stands on the work of Pierre Nora, Jeffrey Alexander, Radim Marada, Csaba Szaló, Talja Blokland, David Sibley and Ryan Centner. Special attention is devoted to the perspective of neighborhood and neighbor relations, as well as the creation of relations to the city as a daily life place. The article empirically works with two sets of findings that are both bound to space in the so-called "Brno Bronx." One is the cultural milieu of remembering the inhabitance of this area by Germans who were expelled in 1945. The second set of knowledge comes from interviews with Slovak Roma who came to the area after 1945. The common topic of this part of the text is ethnicized remembering, which reproduces existing ethnic stereotypes but also enables the creation of ethnically defined categories for inhabitants within a given city quarter and the hierarchization of these categories.

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“…When I attended the PP meetings looking for Puerto Madero residents, there was no one – out of a neighbourhood population over 1,000 (Corporación Antiguo Puerto Madero, 2008). Scholars of class and politics in Latin America note that wealthier sectors often participate in politics through informal means of influence and channels of pressure that evade accountability (Caldeira, 2009; Centner, 2012). Indeed, the avoidance of formal politics is a selling point of properties in Puerto Madero.…”

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Techniques of Absence in Participatory Budgeting: Space, Difference and Governmentality across Buenos Aires

Centner

2012

Bull Latin American Res

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Techniques of absence describe some of the potentially anti‐deliberative practices that haunt recently widespread participation‐based governance schemes. Techniques of absence remove certain kinds of people – on a spatialised basis – from crucial ‘democratic’ conversations. To illustrate these, I use ethnographic accounts from the implementation of a citywide participatory budgeting programme in three neighbourhoods across Buenos Aires, Argentina, modelled after the vaunted budgeting process pioneered in Porto Alegre, Brazil since 1989. I position absencing as part of an emergent urban governmentality related to participation. This allows for an analysis of the Buenos Aires participatory budget across very different areas of the city: Puerto Madero, Abasto, and La Boca. Discussion centres on dynamics of participation and non‐participation observed during extensive fieldwork in 2004 and 2005. The research aimed to establish intense co‐presence through participant‐observation, yet instead yielded an ethnography of absences, entailing analysis of how, why and with what consequences there was lacking participation in this participatory experiment. The phenomenon of absencing points to an emergent governmentality that enables ironically pernicious, territorialised regulation of difference, which must be countered to fulfil the promise of such widespread experiments.

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Microcitizenships: Fractious Forms of Urban Belonging after Argentine Neoliberalism

Cited by 33 publications

References 61 publications

“For Now, We Are in Waiting”: Negotiating Time in Chile's Social Housing System

“For Now, We Are in Waiting”: Negotiating Time in Chile's Social Housing System

Krajina vzpomínek. Kdo kreslí mapu „brněnského Bronxu“?

Techniques of Absence in Participatory Budgeting: Space, Difference and Governmentality across Buenos Aires

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