INVESTIGADORES
PLA Jesica Lorena
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Faces of Inequality: Multidimensional Inequality in Comparative Perspective, Buenos Aires and Ciudad De México
Autor/es:
INGRID BLEYNAT ; PAUL SEGAL; EMILIO AYOS; JESICA PLA
Reunión:
Congreso; IV ISA Forum of Sociology: Challenges of the 21st Century: Democracy, Environment, Inequalities, Intersectionality; 2021
Institución organizadora:
International Sociological Associatio
Resumen:
Inequality is one of the great problems of our time. Yet while inequalities are studied by a range of disciplines and perspectives, there remains little sustained interdisciplinary or comparative work. This limits our understanding of how inequality affects people?s lived experiences, and how it varies across countries. In this paper we tackle both challenges by attempting a multidimensional understanding of inequality and a comparative perspective between two capital cities in Latin America: Buenos Aires and Ciudad de México.We combine quantitative and qualitative data on households throughout the social structure. Statistics alone give little sense of the effect of inequality on people?s lived experience (Pla, 2017, Bayon and Saravi 2017), while ethnographic and qualitative research rarely explores the full distribution, focusing in detail on only a subset of it (Flemmen and Savage 2017). Instead, we merge the representativeness of quantitative studies with the depth and nuance of qualitative analyses. We probe inequalities both between individuals as well as between groups defined by class, gender, ethnicity, geography, and other salient characteristics.We use quantitative data about inequality available in representative household surveys (ENIGH, Mexico and EPH INDEC, Argentina) to systematize 50 in-depth interviews from each city, taken across different social strata. These are the outputs of two projects: Faces of Inequality, a collaboration between King?s College London, Oxfam Mexico, Revista Chilango and Periodismo CIDE, and PICT 2013 ¿Una nueva fragmentación social? Socialización/riesgos y movilidad social, funded by Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica, Argentina.The comparative approach follows Robinson (2006), who explores the production of ?social infrastructure,? understood as the socio-material resources, practices and spaces that reproduce human life in the city. In this framework, contestations over care work, healthcare, transport, housing and education expose commonalities between cities, thus making Buenos Aires and Mexico City comparable in their diversity.