Utopian Visions for Buenos Aires Shantytowns: Collective Imaginaries of Housing Rights, Upgrading and Eviction (1956–2013)

Massidda, Adriana Laura

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“…En este sector se testearon diferentes políticas públicas concebidas para intervenir en los espacios informales. Los planes de erradicación de villas de los años sesenta y setenta (véase Massidda, 2018;Snitcofsky, 2012), las cooperativas de autoconstrucción de los ochenta y los programas sociales de los noventa dan cuenta del amplio repertorio tecnológico con el que los planificadores intervinieron las villas miseria, obteniendo en general escasos resultados concretos (Elinbaum & Massidda, 2020). Esta lenta exploración instrumental de prueba y error fue dramáticamente suspendida en 2014, tras la toma del "cementerio de autos" de la Policía Federal y los mediáticos desalojos del predio de 12 hectáreas adyacente a la Villa 20.…”

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Heterotopías urbanas. Modalidades e innovaciones en la producción del espacio estatal porteño

Elinbaum

2022

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Las heterotopías urbanas son lugares que interrumpen la aparente continuidad y normalidad de la ciudad. Por ejemplo, son las villas miseria y favelas sudamericanas, pero también los glamorosos distritos de elite, como el emblemático Canary Wharf en Londres. ¿Cómo se incorporan estos espacios singulares a la espacialidad supuestamente unitaria y equilibrada del Estado? A partir de la comparación de los planes parciales implementados para desarrollar simultáneamente dos “villas” de Buenos Aires en un mismo territorio –la Comuna 8–, en este artículo se indaga en los entramados de proyectos y estrategias para mostrar las modalidades e innovaciones en la producción del espacio estatal porteño. A partir de un enfoque cualitativo, apoyado en dos dimensiones básicas del planeamiento urbano, se evidencian algunas relaciones dialécticas entre diferentes escalas, ciclos de inversión y regulación que suelen ser soslayadas no solo por las investigaciones acotadas a los “enclaves”, sino también por los efectos discursivos de las políticas urbanas pretendidamente “integrales”

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Heterotopías urbanas. Modalidades e innovaciones en la producción del espacio estatal porteño

Elinbaum

2022

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“…The diverse Latin American cities that have emerged out of these processes are sites of vibrancy and hope, on the one hand, and poverty and segregation, on the other. The 'auto-construction' of low-income neighbourhoods has created space for the emergence of new political practices and relations, while the development of high-income gated communities has generated new forms of exclusion and inequality (Amin, 2014;Maclean, 2015;Perry, 2016;Geraghty and Massidda, 2019;Massidda, 2018Massidda, , 2021Gyger, 2019;Boulos, 2021). Today, over 80 per cent of Latin Americans are estimated to live in urban areas, making the region one of the most urbanised in the world.…”

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The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructures

2022

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From houses to roads, infrastructure provides a unique lens through which to explore social and political change. Serving as an important conduit between states and individuals, infrastructure provides governments with a powerful tool to mould citizens and control populations. Yet, at the same time, it also provides individuals and collectives with a platform to challenge the state and forge alternative forms of citizenship and politics. Infrastructure therefore often reconfigures social and political relations in unexpected ways and never dutifully follows the scripts of politicians, bureaucrats, and engineers. Latin America provides fertile terrain to explore these issues. The region has been subject to extensive foreign intervention for centuries and much of its infrastructure has been primarily constructed to benefit colonial and imperial powers. Yet it has also been an important site of resistance, and infrastructure has been central to these struggles, including indigenous efforts to challenge capitalist-colonial expansion. Latin America’s history and diversity create unique infrastructure configurations, and the region’s remarkable geography adds to their distinctiveness. This cross-disciplinary book seeks to capture the characteristics, limits and vibrancy of Latin America’s infrastructures. The empirical chapters explore a wide range of infrastructures, from irrigation networks in Peru to nuclear plants in Cuba. The introduction builds on these chapters to show the value of understanding infrastructure as a relational and experimental process. In doing so, the volume makes a novel contribution to global infrastructure debates and provides important new insights into Latin America’s history and politics.

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“…Social movements and other more episodic forms of (more or less contentious) collective action are also central elements in how poor people seek to meet their basic needs. The scholarship on squatting as a collective housing strategy in Latin America is vast (Fischer et al 2014 ; Massidda 2018 ; Murphy 2014 ; Schneider 1995 ) – and it ranges from squatting organizational dynamics (Cravino and Vommaro 2018 ; Merklen 1991 ) to its relationship to democratic citizenship (Holston 2009 ). Classic (Collier 1976 ) and more recent work (Álvarez-Rivadulla 2017 ) carefully documents the variety of responses that political parties and government throughout the region have had toward illegal squatting (from repression, to encouragement, neglect, and forbearance – or a combination thereof) (Holland 2017 ; Schneider 1995 ).…”

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How Do the Urban Poor Survive? A Comparative Ethnography of Subsistence Strategies in Argentina, Ecuador, and Mexico

2021

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Drawing on ethnographic data collected in three informal communities, one in Argentina, one in México, and one in Ecuador, we address the long-standing question posed by Larissa Lomnitz’s and Carol Stack’s now-classic studies of how impoverished people not only survive but what strategies they adopt in an attempt to build a dignified life. By focusing on the diversity of strategies by which the urban poor solve the everyday problems of individual and collective reproduction, we move beyond the macro-level analysis of structural constraint and material deprivation. Our findings show a remarkable continuity in the difficulties residents of these informal communities confronted and the problem-solving strategies they resorted to. We found that networks of kin and friends continue to play a crucial role in how poor people not only survive but attempt to get ahead. Additionally, we highlight the role of patronage networks and collective action as central to strategies by which the urban poor cope with scarcity and improve their life chances, while also paying close attention to ways in which they deal with pressing issues of insecurity and violence. The paper shows that poor people’s survival strategies are deeply imbricated in routine political processes.

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Utopian Visions for Buenos Aires Shantytowns: Collective Imaginaries of Housing Rights, Upgrading and Eviction (1956–2013)

Cited by 13 publications

References 8 publications

Heterotopías urbanas. Modalidades e innovaciones en la producción del espacio estatal porteño

Heterotopías urbanas. Modalidades e innovaciones en la producción del espacio estatal porteño

The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructures

How Do the Urban Poor Survive? A Comparative Ethnography of Subsistence Strategies in Argentina, Ecuador, and Mexico

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