Spatial Politics and Urban Borders: a study of Buenos Aires

ALEJANDRO GRIMSON

The City is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age

Cornell University Press

Año: 2016; p. 253 - 293

This chapter addresses the relationship between social space and daily politics, based on ethnographic studies in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires. With a timeframe from 2000 to 2008, it focus on the tactical use of urban space as a key component of new urban social movements that link the urban workers (Harvey 2012, Xiii) and right to the city frameworks (Greenberg and Lewis, in this volume). Buenos Aires struggles show a fascinating case of the larger "city as factory" idea, because it allows to understand the spatial dimension of class differences and conflicts. As the the most populated Latin American city after Mexico DF and Sao Paulo, the political crisis from 2001 to 2003 was processed and disputed on spatial urban axis like north/south, center/periphery, and the local notion of neighborhood.