El libro surgió a partir de la materia Sociología Urbana de la FADU-UBA y consta de dos grandes partes. Una primera dedicaba al contexto de surgimiento de la sociología en el siglo XIX y a los clásicos de la sociología urbana como... more
El libro surgió a partir de la materia Sociología Urbana de la FADU-UBA y consta de dos grandes partes.
Una primera dedicaba al contexto de surgimiento de la sociología en el siglo XIX y a los clásicos de la sociología urbana como Simmel, la Escuela de Chicago, La escuela Francesa marxista, la mirada urbana de Bourdieu , para finalizar con David Harvey y Saskia Sassen.
La segunda parte se focaliza en temáticas actuales desde la perspectiva de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires: el espacio verde público, la gentrificación, las villas de emergencia y los instrumentos de gestión del hábitat.
This study is an attempt to signify the efforts put by common ground citizens to aid the refugee crisis at stake since 2015. Although forced migration from armed conflicts and natural catastrophes have been a recurring phenomenon... more
This study is an attempt to signify the efforts put by common ground citizens to aid the refugee crisis at stake since 2015. Although forced migration from armed conflicts and natural catastrophes have been a recurring phenomenon throughout the last century, the current exodus from Middle-East countries like Syria and Afghanistan is beyond known comparison. The number of displaced citizens escaping from battlegrounds, trying to find a safe passage to Europe is counted by millions. After the inability shown by many European governments to offer safe asylum to migrants, many have been trapped between borders in south-eastern Europe. The major hotspot is still located in Greece, where many refugees managed to reach islands in the Egean Sea avoiding the otherwise forced passage through Turkey. The Greek government, facing many difficulties since the start of the economic crisis in 2009, has been unable to provide decent living conditions to the asylum seekers trapped today in the country. This empty space has been filled by self-organised organisations and communities, being the most prominent example the Exarchia neighbourhood in Athens. Hosting refugees in “squats”, occupied buildings, the local community has shown an admirable ability to give back the dignity lost in their tough journey from home. In this paper I will concentrate in describing the resiliency of Exarchia providing basic needs in this crisis, comparing it to the inefficient efforts by the Greek State. Squatting movements provide the opportunity to produce public and domestic space in a different way, and could set path to other initiatives around the globe. Towards the end of the paper, I will abide for bottom up decision-making in communities as the prime revolutionary method to design urban life.
In this paper we’re proposing a field theory approach to the analysis of urban social movements. We use the example of an emerging Polish urban grassroots’ civil society movement to illustrate the application of a novel theoretical... more
In this paper we’re proposing a field theory approach to the analysis of urban social movements. We use the example of an emerging Polish urban grassroots’ civil society movement to illustrate the application of a novel theoretical framework suggested and developed by Fligstein and McAdam in their recent book “A Theory of Fields”.
This article brings Lefebvre’s Right to the City thesis into conversation with Bauman’s notion of the flawed consumer to account for the neoliberal colonisation of public tenant organising in urban redevelopment. Drawing on a case study of... more
This article brings Lefebvre’s Right to the City thesis into conversation with Bauman’s notion of the flawed consumer to account for the neoliberal colonisation of public tenant organising in urban redevelopment. Drawing on a case study of public housing redevelopment from Sydney, Australia, we show that neoliberal community building and the emergence of professional community builders obviate the self-organising efforts of tenants. In this case tenants’ rights were attenuated when the housing authority invited private capital to not only rebuild the physical fabric but also remake the social relations around public tenancy within the trope of consumerism. We argue for a revival of tenant self-organising as a collective political project that might counteract the individualisation of tenants’ rights under neoliberal community building regimes. Such a political project needs to be extended beyond the boundaries of the local neighbourhood or ‘housing estate’ to expose the strategies at work in public housing redevelopment projects. Drawing on Right to the City we argue that inhabitance should confer the right to participate in place-making. We conclude that tenant self-organising is one way that tenants
imagine, collectively construct and inhabit lived space; it is a process of meaning- and place-making amongst a community with a shared experience of contemporary urban transformation.
In recent years, notions of space in biblical texts have been analyzed by means of sociological concepts of spatiality, primarily based on the works of Henri Lefebvre and Edward Soja. This article explores the heuristic provided by... more
In recent years, notions of space in biblical texts have been analyzed by means of sociological concepts of spatiality, primarily based on the works of Henri Lefebvre and Edward Soja. This article explores the heuristic provided by spatial concepts for the understanding of Psalm 73 and the debated understanding of the expression “sanctuaries of God” (מִקְדְּשֵׁי־אֵל) in v. 17. The actions described in this psalm take place in social space that is constituted, endangered and renewed by the actions of the psalm’s protagonists.
