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Barrio resurgence in Buenos Aires: Local autonomy claims amid state-sponsored transnationalism

J. Miguel Kanai
- 01 May 2011 - 
- Vol. 30, Iss: 4, pp 225-235
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This article argued that curtailing the empowerment of barrio districts were the following conditions: mayoral opposition to communal reforms, ongoing cross-scalar tensions between the city and national government, and the barrio-centric issue framings of activists, which hampered social recruitment in an increasingly heterogeneous and transnationalized urban space.
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This article is published in Political Geography.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 31 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Urban politics & Political efficacy.

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New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood

Neil Brenner
- 01 Jan 2004 - 
TL;DR: New State Spaces as discussed by the authors is a mature and sophisticated analysis of broad interdisciplinary interest, making this a highly significant contribution to the subject of political geographies of the modern state, which has been made in the past few years.
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Decolonising territory: Dialogues with Latin American knowledges and grassroots strategies

TL;DR: For instance, this paper developed an open definition of territory in the context of the modern, Eurocentric state, which has been increasingly interrogated within Anglophone human geography.
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Territory, intersectionality, and class composition: ‘Neighbouring migrants’ in Buenos Aires

Nick Clare
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the experiences of, and attitudes towards, "neighbouring migrants" -immigrants from Peru, Bolivia, and Paraguay, as well as certain internal, Argentine migrants - in Buenos Aires.
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Urban Fads and Consensual Fictions: Creative, Sustainable, and Competitive City Policies in Buenos Aires

TL;DR: This article pointed out the reliance of city governments on ever-more market mechanisms for organizing social and economic policy, and pointed out that this form of governance involves prioritizin the market mechanisms.
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Space, Place and Gender

Doreen Massey
TL;DR: Massey as discussed by the authors rastrea el desarrollo de ideas sobre la estructura social del espacio y el lugar, and the relacion of ambos con cuestiones de genero and ciertos debates dentro del feminismo.
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New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood

Neil Brenner
TL;DR: The State Spatial Process under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis as discussed by the authors ) is a state spatial process under capitalism framework for analysis, focusing on cities, states, and the explosion of spaces.
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New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood

Neil Brenner
- 01 Jan 2004 - 
TL;DR: New State Spaces as discussed by the authors is a mature and sophisticated analysis of broad interdisciplinary interest, making this a highly significant contribution to the subject of political geographies of the modern state, which has been made in the past few years.
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The 21st-Century Metropolis: New Geographies of Theory

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the dominant theorizations of global city-regions are rooted in the EuroAmerican experience and are thus unable to analyse multiple forms of metropolitan modernities.
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Theorizing Sociospatial Relations

TL;DR: The TPSN framework as mentioned in this paper proposes that territories (T), places (P), scales (S), and networks (N) must be viewed as mutually constitutive and relationally intertwined dimensions of sociospatial relations.