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OverviewBased on extensive, original fieldwork, as well as new survey data, The Right to the City contributes to the study of democratization by focusing on the dilemmas and opportunities of popular contention in the city of Buenos Aires. It also offers an excellent overview of the history of social mobilization in Argentina. Gabriela Ippolito-O’Donnell’s main assertion in this study is that through various channels of collective action and associational activities, as well as by voting, the urban popular sector is a fundamental actor in the pursuit of the expansion and consolidation of citizenship rights. Using both qualitative analysis and quantitative data, Ippolito-O’Donnell explores what factors—economic, politico-institutional, organizational, and subjective—account for the emergence in the 1980s, and collapse in the 1990s, of a wave of grassroots popular organizations in Villa Lugano, a poor neighborhood located in the south of Buenos Aires. She identifies factors crucial for explaining the organizational weakness and concomitant cyclical patterns of collective action by the urban poor, as well as the consequences for alleviating poverty and inequality in this newly democratized nation. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gabriela Ippolito-O'DonnellPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.432kg ISBN: 9780268031794ISBN 10: 0268031797 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 30 November 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsWhat are the challenges of mobilization that the urban poor face during democratization? This book carefully answers these questions by studying the decline of social mobilization in a poor neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Villa Lugano, during the democratization of Argentina. . . . The Right to the City is a solid accomplishment that shows how social mobilization under democracy faces obstacles and adversities in a contentious urban space. This stimulating book deserves to be read as a source of new analytical insights on urban social movements in Latin America. -- Bulletin of Latin American Research, vol. 33, no. 4, 2014 What are the challenges of mobilization that the urban poor face during democratization? This book carefully answers these questions by studying the decline of social mobilization in a poor neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Villa Lugano, during the democratization of Argentina. . . . The Right to the City is a solid accomplishment that shows how social mobilization under democracy faces obstacles and adversities in a contentious urban space. This stimulating book deserves to be read as a source of new analytical insights on urban social movements in Latin America. -- Bulletin of Latin American Research Author InformationGabriela Ippolito-O’Donnell is professor in the School of Politics and Government at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Argentina. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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