The Social Life of the Mall: Working and Dwelling in Urban Argentina

Paseo La Estación, a mall in Buenos Aires, is as much a place of transit as a place of encounter, where long-term residents and newcomers, people with and without jobs, homeowners and those without housing meet. In the process, social tensions emerge, especially when classist, migrantizing, and mora...

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1. Verfasser: Reiffen, Franziska (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bielefeld transcript Verlag [2024]
Schriftenreihe:Urban Studies
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Zusammenfassung:Paseo La Estación, a mall in Buenos Aires, is as much a place of transit as a place of encounter, where long-term residents and newcomers, people with and without jobs, homeowners and those without housing meet. In the process, social tensions emerge, especially when classist, migrantizing, and moralizing distinctions become relevant in conflict-laden negotiations of belonging. In an ethnography of the mall, Franziska Reiffen explores how people find opportunities for social, economic, and political participation in precarious conditions, and shows how people create socially meaningful places in a city characterized by diversity, inequality, and mobility
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Nov 2024)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (252 Seiten)
ISBN:9783839473641
DOI:10.1515/9783839473641

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