Right to the City - Popular Contention in Contemporary Buenos Aires

Klappentext Based on extensive, original fieldwork, as well as new survey data, The Right to the City focuses on the dilemmas and opportunities of popular contention in Buenos Aires. It also offers an excellent overview of the history of social mobilization in Argentina. Its main assertion 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. Zusammenfassung This book contributes to the study of democratization by focusing on the dilemmas and opportunities of popular contention in the city of Buenos Aires.

Product details

• Authors: Gabriela Ippolito-O'Donnell, Gabriela Ippolito-O''donnell
• Publisher: University Of Notre Dame Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2011
• EAN: 9780268031794
• ISBN: 978-0-268-03179-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas