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Ethnography, biopolitics and coloniality : genealogies of urban precariousness in the Buenos Aires metropolitan region.

Etnografía, biopolítica y colonialidad : genealogías de la precariedad urbana en la Región Metropolitana de Buenos Aires.




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Ethnography, biopolitics and coloniality : genealogies of urban precariousness in the Buenos Aires metropolitan region. (2020). Tabula Rasa, 34, 19-39. https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n34.02

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This article proposes elements for a genealogy of urban space, where through the coloniality, urbanization and modernity trilogy we approach the problematization of contemporary forms of biopolitics. A history of our present urbanity in Buenos Aires, a metropolis that, like others in the global south, since the end of the 20th century, faces an expansion of the growing and constant urban stain that occurs in the heat of processes by which while some areas they expand with the features of globalized cosmopolitan life, others also expand and settle in the forms of precarious urbanization. The proposed work and discussions take place at the moment when ethnography and biopolitics meet. At this intersection, the field material contributes to the debate about the place of ethnography in the memory of the present through a file that composes a set of events, relationships and struggles that occur both in territory and by territory. An archive in which the lines of the present are pulled by those others that from the limbo of history remember their presence. Image of forgotten stories, juxtaposed in the present that allow to undermine linear and progressive notions of urban development and remember that violence is buried not only in the historical record but also in the urban landscape. We propose that the panics, fears and anxieties typical of the urban do not constitute a novelty of the 21st century, but rather form a neuralgic part of the constitution of modern and colonial Buenos Aires.


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