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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Main Author: Reiffen, Franziska (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld transcript Verlag [2024]
Series:Urban Studies
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1043
DE-858
DE-859
DE-860
DE-739
DE-473
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Summary: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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Nov 2024)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (252 Seiten)
ISBN:9783839473641
DOI:10.1515/9783839473641

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