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Cravino, María Cristina
Materias
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Temporal Coverage
2016-2019
Idioma
spa
Extent
331 p.
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Buenos Aires (inhabited place)
2016-2019
Abstract
This dissertation aims to analyze and compare different forms of contentious collective action that have the city as object of grievance and claim in Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (CABA). While doing fieldwork for a master’s thesis, we found a great diversity of urban movements and demands for which the academic literature had not a satisfactory explanation on how they coordinate and articulate with each other. At the same time, we wondered about the hardships these organizations faced during the 21st century to build broader coalitions, alliances and unified fronts to contest the city’s development to the Government of the City of Buenos Aires. This dissertation plans to study this phenomenon in the intersection of three research fields: urban studies, social movements studies, and pragmatic sociology of social problems. We claim that these forms of urban mobilization revolved around two public arenas, where different organizations and agents contest certain urban problems under grammars of collective action of its own.
To test this hypothesis, we carried a comparative study of two cases, each selected from one of these public arenas. For each of these, we situationally and contextually analyzed the social organizations involved in an urban policy or conflict. We aim to unpack the particularities and constitutive dimensions of urban movements, paying special attention to repertoires of contention, organizational structures, and collective frames of the agents involved. The first case was the upgrading of Playón de Chacarita, an informal settlement located in a middle-class neighborhood going through a slum upgrading and formalization program since mid-2016. There, several community-based organizations and grassroots leaders mobilized to contest and participate in the program, claiming for interventions to better reflect their needs and preferences. For our second case study, we analyze the public discussion and enactment of new zoning codes for CABA. This struggle activated a network of small middle-class neighborhood associations, NGOs, and community leaders disseminated throughout the city. These grassroots organizations mobilized to participatory workshops, the local legislature, and the public sphere in general, demanding for better consultancy in the enactment of the new zoning code. Even though they did not oppose the updating of urban legislation, they claimed that the new code had technical errors, would duplicate the population of the city, introduced new mixed uses in residential neighborhoods, and lacked policy frameworks to successfully manage future urban growth.
With this aim we apply a qualitative research strategy, triangulating several qualitative data collection methodologies including 35 in-depth semi-structured interviews, observation of participatory, social, and political gatherings, analysis of official minutiae, documents and records, and media coverage of national and local newspapers.
To test this hypothesis, we carried a comparative study of two cases, each selected from one of these public arenas. For each of these, we situationally and contextually analyzed the social organizations involved in an urban policy or conflict. We aim to unpack the particularities and constitutive dimensions of urban movements, paying special attention to repertoires of contention, organizational structures, and collective frames of the agents involved. The first case was the upgrading of Playón de Chacarita, an informal settlement located in a middle-class neighborhood going through a slum upgrading and formalization program since mid-2016. There, several community-based organizations and grassroots leaders mobilized to contest and participate in the program, claiming for interventions to better reflect their needs and preferences. For our second case study, we analyze the public discussion and enactment of new zoning codes for CABA. This struggle activated a network of small middle-class neighborhood associations, NGOs, and community leaders disseminated throughout the city. These grassroots organizations mobilized to participatory workshops, the local legislature, and the public sphere in general, demanding for better consultancy in the enactment of the new zoning code. Even though they did not oppose the updating of urban legislation, they claimed that the new code had technical errors, would duplicate the population of the city, introduced new mixed uses in residential neighborhoods, and lacked policy frameworks to successfully manage future urban growth.
With this aim we apply a qualitative research strategy, triangulating several qualitative data collection methodologies including 35 in-depth semi-structured interviews, observation of participatory, social, and political gatherings, analysis of official minutiae, documents and records, and media coverage of national and local newspapers.
Título obtenido
Doctor de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales