Autor/es
Descripción
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Colaborador
Di Virgilio, María Mercedes
Rodríguez, María Carla
Materias
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
1996-2015
Idioma
spa
Extent
360 p.
Derechos
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.0 Genérica (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Formato
application/pdf
Identificador
Cobertura
7593303
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (autonomus city)
1996-2015
Abstract
The thesis deals with the different ways in which the local Sate operates on urban space within neoliberal and neodevelopmental contexts, stressing with special emphasis the forms of development and the types of integration promoted through public policies. It also seeks to promote the notion of urban extractivism by means of the observation and analysis of space production processes and the relations established within that framework, evidencing the ways in which resources, goods, services and capabilities among classes and fractions of classes are removed and redistributed by urban policies.
To proceed in the analysis, the case study on the development of Municipality 8 of the City of Buenos Aires was chosen. This area, which concentrates the city’s largest number of shanty towns and social housing, has been the object of different interventions promoted to reconfigure its territory. The time cut (1995-2015) follows, in its initial year, the time in which the matter of development reappeared in the state agenda, and the closing one to the definition of most interventions displayed at the present time. The processes are dealt as from a qualitative methodology that articulates in depth interviews, analysis of documents and territorial observations.
The chosen analytical perspective proceeds with a combined reading of structural processes related to the reconfiguration of capitalism and agency processes related to territorial political disputes for the production, use and enjoyment of the city. The thesis is organized around three large axes that enable us to visualize it within different views and levels. The first one reconstructs the debates and discussions that took place within the sphere of planning. The second one looks at development policy through the changes produced in the State´s materiality and the day to day operation of state agencies. The third one advances in a territorial outlook that reconstructs the relations, disputes and conflicts established by entrepreneurial, state and social organizations within a political framework, advancing in a territorially anchored outlook.
The analysis evidences that the social, political and economic conditions of the national neoliberal and neodevelopmental context have a bearing on the perspectives, guidelines, decisions and modes of intervention of the local State as well as in those non-state actors that bear an incidence in territorial processes. But, it stresses that they are not sharp ruptures, shedding light on certain directions and structural continuities related to capitalist urbanization. Within this framework, a form of plundering development can be visualized, in which the extractivistic component plays a central role, reflecting states that are specific of social relations and concrete forms of government, both historically and geographically. In a parallel way, the thesis shows that these processes are not quite linear, they are contradictory and conflictive within the context of relations and struggles among actors and organizations with very different objectives, interests and perspectives. Within this context, the territory emerges as a central category, as the sphere of everyday life where, although with nuances and within the framework of determined power relations, the conditions of production, use and enjoyment of the city are disputed.
To proceed in the analysis, the case study on the development of Municipality 8 of the City of Buenos Aires was chosen. This area, which concentrates the city’s largest number of shanty towns and social housing, has been the object of different interventions promoted to reconfigure its territory. The time cut (1995-2015) follows, in its initial year, the time in which the matter of development reappeared in the state agenda, and the closing one to the definition of most interventions displayed at the present time. The processes are dealt as from a qualitative methodology that articulates in depth interviews, analysis of documents and territorial observations.
The chosen analytical perspective proceeds with a combined reading of structural processes related to the reconfiguration of capitalism and agency processes related to territorial political disputes for the production, use and enjoyment of the city. The thesis is organized around three large axes that enable us to visualize it within different views and levels. The first one reconstructs the debates and discussions that took place within the sphere of planning. The second one looks at development policy through the changes produced in the State´s materiality and the day to day operation of state agencies. The third one advances in a territorial outlook that reconstructs the relations, disputes and conflicts established by entrepreneurial, state and social organizations within a political framework, advancing in a territorially anchored outlook.
The analysis evidences that the social, political and economic conditions of the national neoliberal and neodevelopmental context have a bearing on the perspectives, guidelines, decisions and modes of intervention of the local State as well as in those non-state actors that bear an incidence in territorial processes. But, it stresses that they are not sharp ruptures, shedding light on certain directions and structural continuities related to capitalist urbanization. Within this framework, a form of plundering development can be visualized, in which the extractivistic component plays a central role, reflecting states that are specific of social relations and concrete forms of government, both historically and geographically. In a parallel way, the thesis shows that these processes are not quite linear, they are contradictory and conflictive within the context of relations and struggles among actors and organizations with very different objectives, interests and perspectives. Within this context, the territory emerges as a central category, as the sphere of everyday life where, although with nuances and within the framework of determined power relations, the conditions of production, use and enjoyment of the city are disputed.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales