‘But this is a park’! The paradox of public space in a Buenos Aires ‘no man's land’

Lederman, Jacob

doi:10.1080/13621025.2013.764212

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“…These economic policies produced ‘a novel geography of social inequality’ (Libertun de Duren, 2008: 123), as ‘public’ space became privatised and securitised (Grimson, 2008), creating a ‘neoliberal territory’ (González, 2010). This disproportionately affected the lives of migrants and the urban poor, for whom parks and other ‘public’ spaces were the only options for socialising (Lederman, 2013). The government’s laissez-faire attitude meant that 80% of foreign direct investment went to the city’s north (Ciccolella, 1999), exacerbating the north/south divide.…”

Section: Composing Buenos Airesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Composing the social factory: An autonomist urban geography of Buenos Aires

Clare

2018

Environ Plan D

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Through the creation of an original theoretical framework, this paper demonstrates the value of a deeper engagement between autonomist Marxism and (urban) geography. By spatialising arguably the autonomists’ key theoretical contribution – class composition – the paper develops the ideas of technical and political spatial compositions. These dialectically intertwined concepts provide a framework with which to analyse the relationships between shifting urban spaces and struggles, and clarity is therefore added to another key autonomist concept, the evocative yet nebulous ‘social factory’. Applying these to Buenos Aires, the paper focuses on various spatial conjunctures, exploring their emergence and the immanent potentials for radical spatial politics they afford and preclude. In particular, the paper provides a detailed reading of the complex role Buenos Aires’ ‘informal’ settlements play in both perpetuating and resisting a neoliberal, financially extractive economy. The benefit of a ‘spatial composition’ framework is twofold: it provides a periodising heuristic with which to originally and usefully approach urban struggles, and, in unpacking the ‘social factory’, it can be applied widely as a form of radical geographical praxis. The paper thus makes important theoretical and empirical contributions to an exciting, emerging autonomist (urban) geography, as well as to studies of Buenos Aires.

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Section: Composing Buenos Airesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Composing the social factory: An autonomist urban geography of Buenos Aires

Clare

2018

Environ Plan D

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“…Cities are not just important for citizenship in and of themselves. In addition to the argument of the different scale at which citizenship is defined, as discussed in the introduction (Holston, 2008;Holston and Appadurai, 1999;Lederman, 2013;Smith and McQuarrie, 2012), other authors have also suggested that citizenship is no longer a given but is something that needs to be struggled for. Painter (2005), for example, has argued that ''there are good reasons to reconnect citizenship with cities, especially if we focus on 'bottom-up' citizenship and on citizenship as practice and participation'' (: 7).…”

Section: Urban Citizenship Migration and Informalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Cities are, however, highly heterogeneous places and this has implications for how claims for urban citizenship are made. While in the literature on cities and citizenship there was initially a tendency to look at the city as a whole more recent work, particularly that which emerged from research in the Global South, has highlighted the importance of peripheries for the construction of urban citizenship (Bayat, 2000;Holston, 2008Holston, , 2009Kanai, 2011;Lazar, 2008;Lederman, 2013). This literature has shown that different spaces within the city give rise to different forms and practices of citizenship.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Between a guest and an okupa: Migration and the making of insurgent citizenship in Buenos Aires’ informal settlements

Bastia

Bressán

2017

Environ Plan A

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In this paper, we explore initiatives for the construction of substantive citizenship by transnational migrants in Buenos Aires. In looking at migrants’ political participation across the city, we found that the spatiality of citizenship practices is important. At the city level, there are migrant organisations representing specific nationalities. However, in informal settlements, where many migrants reside, we found that migrants engage in political practices across nationality and ethnic lines by coming together with their neighbours in grassroots organisations. These different forms of organising embody critically different views of migrants in their relationship with rights. While the former promote practices linked to ethnic belonging and see migrants as ‘guests’ in a foreign country, unable to make claims to the local or national governments, the latter see them as rights-bearing individuals with power to claim their right to the city. We argue that activism at the scale of the neighbourhood proves to hold more potential for the building of substantive citizenship than actions by organisations active at the city level. This is because migrant organisations active at the city level organise on the basis of nationality, while those at the neighbourhood level bring migrants and non-migrants together on the basis of their class-based interests.

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“…Such insurgent citizenship, to coin Holston's (1995) term, takes many shapes. It depicts the service provisions of illegal organizations that copy the protective function of the state (Sanjuán 1997;Koonings and Kruijt 2007), but also refers to normative citizenship notions that counter national policy by echoing a supranational human rights discourse (Nash 2001;Lederman 2013). In Salta, however, civil insurgency seemed to have gone awry.…”

Section: Class Adversity: Civil Insurgency Gone Awrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Microcitizenships amidst Post-Neoliberal Insecurity: The Political Articulation of Contentious Entitlements among the Middle Class in Salta, Argentina

Jonkman¹

2015

ELA

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‘But this is a park’! The paradox of public space in a Buenos Aires ‘no man's land’

Cited by 6 publications

References 18 publications

Composing the social factory: An autonomist urban geography of Buenos Aires

Composing the social factory: An autonomist urban geography of Buenos Aires

Between a guest and an okupa: Migration and the making of insurgent citizenship in Buenos Aires’ informal settlements

Microcitizenships amidst Post-Neoliberal Insecurity: The Political Articulation of Contentious Entitlements among the Middle Class in Salta, Argentina

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