INVESTIGADORES
SEGURA Ramiro
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Urban Fragmentation and Social Inequalities. Reflections from the Metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires
Autor/es:
RAMIRO SEGURA
Lugar:
Providence
Reunión:
Workshop; Current Research on the Southern Cone; 2017
Institución organizadora:
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) del Watson Institute, Brown University
Resumen:
My starting point assumes that city and inequality are related in a complex way. In this regard, David Harvey formulated incisive hypotheses about the ?hidden mechanisms? of income distribution active in the urban system that, impacting location, accessibility, proximity and urban resources, usually tend to increase inequalities rather than reduce them. The urban space not only expresses or reflects social inequalities, but rather it also conditions its (re)production, affecting diverse aspects of social life such as job and education opportunities, access and costs related to mobility and transport, and the symbolic status of the inhabitants of different parts of the city. In the last years I have been working on three analitycal levels about this issues: at macro level analyzing the regional dynamics of Buenos Aires metropoli; at representational level, inquiring historical and contemporary ways of represent the metropolitan region; and at interactional level, describing unequal ways of dwelling the metropoli. I will trie to articule them in this presentation to think about social inequalities and urban fragmentation.