Producing territory: territorial organizing of movements in Buenos Aires
<p>In this paper we analyze the territorial organizing of two dissimilar social movements across Greater Buenos Aires, showing how urban struggles produce territory as a key element of their political practice. Through their relational, contested character, these Latin American territories for...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Copernicus Publications
2019-05-01
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| Series: | Geographica Helvetica |
| Online Access: | https://www.geogr-helv.net/74/153/2019/gh-74-153-2019.pdf |
| Summary: | <p>In this paper we analyze the territorial organizing of two dissimilar social
movements across Greater Buenos Aires, showing how urban struggles produce
territory as a key element of their political practice. Through their
relational, contested character, these Latin American territories foreground
an alternative to state-centric, Anglo-American models of territorial
politics. First, the unemployed workers' movements in the urban periphery
show how the territorial organization of production and reproduction creates
new social relations, and second, an assembly-organized market emphasizes
the relationality of territory in constructing solidarity economies. This
paper contributes to debates on urban social movements by showing that these
movements use practices of territorial organizing to produce urban territory
in distinct ways, and that territorial organizing is relational, contested,
and central to movements' praxis.</p> |
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| ISSN: | 0016-7312 2194-8798 |