Social movements and their expression in public space. New demands and shared meanings

ROSA, PAULA; VIDOSA, REGINA

City (Un) Silenced. Urban Protests and Public Space in the Age of Shrinking Democracy

Routledge

Lugar: Viena ; Año: 2017; p. 56 - 66

The following chapter analyzes some specific experiences of urban resistance in the neoliberalization of Argentina. This one focuses on the fact that even though several years have gone by since the first resistance, its main characteristics -demands, identities, organizational modalities and even its ways of appropriation of the public space- have left traces in the present organizational and resistance forms. In consequence, this chapter offers a historical view, going over the first implementation of neoliberal policies; the context of a social, economic and political crisis in 2001 and, lastly, an observation of the present urban resistance.