The Role of Wages and Auditing during a Crackdown on Corruption in the City of Buenos Aires

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Di Tella ◽  
Ernesto Schargrodsky
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
The City

The Role of Wages and Auditing during a Crackdown on Corruption in the City of Buenos Aires

2003 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 269-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Di Tella ◽  
Ernesto Schargrodsky
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
The City

Latin American Intellectuals and the City, 1860–1940

1978 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Morse
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Latin Americans ◽  
Political Tradition ◽  
Future Potential ◽  
Civilization And Barbarism ◽  
The City ◽  
Latin American Intellectuals

Given the historic role of cities in Latin America as an instrument for appropriating territory and for ordering society, one may wonder why more attention is not paid to the Latin Americans' own vision of the city. We are sometimes asked to believe that only in the 1940s did the urban phenomenon loom in their world and that our knowledge of it comes from foreign demographers and anthropologists. Colonial sources like Solórzano and the Recopilación, however, demonstrate that the IberoCatholic political tradition gives central importance to the organizational and paradigmatic functions of the urban unit. After independence, to be sure, this tradition was eclipsed by the ‘ruralization’ of Latin American societies as urban, bureaucratic structures decayed and power flowed to the agrarian domain. At this time also, intellectual horizons opened to offer release from scholastic constraints, encouraging the intelligentsia to make eclectic, sometimes euphoric assessments of their new nations' future potential. Of these pensadores Sarmiento almost alone dealt directly with the city's role in nation building. Yet his very plea that the city — whether Buenos Aires or a new ‘Argirópolis’ — assume ‘modernizing’ or ‘developmental‘functions reverts to the old Mediterranean notion that the city (civitas) is one with ‘civilization’. For this Alberdi attacked him, reminding Sarmiento that in Argentina town and country, civilization and barbarism, were not disjoined but fused in a single society and polity.

Chronicle of a death foretold: The enactment of patriarchy and class in print newspaper readership

Journalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146488492098768
Author(s):  
Eugenia Mitchelstein ◽  
Pablo J Boczkowski ◽  
Facundo Suenzo
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Civic Duty ◽  
Patriarchal Family ◽  
Family Patterns ◽  
Gender Education ◽  
Class Status ◽  
The City

This research examines the role of gender and class inequalities in the experience of reading print newspapers. We draw on data from two complementary sources: a survey of news, technology and entertainment consumption ( n = 700) administered in the greater Buenos Aires area, and 158 semi-structured interviews conducted in the City of Buenos Aires and other towns in Argentina. Our findings indicate that although news consumption in general appears to be evenly distributed, with no significant gaps according to age, gender, education and socioeconomic status, print newspaper consumption seems to be the preserve of older, more affluent, mostly male audiences in ways that reinforce patriarchal family patterns – it is usually husbands and fathers who decide for the entire household which newspaper is purchased and when that takes place. In addition, newspaper reading is carried on by those at the top of the income-earning pyramid, and reinforces class status mainly due to the persistent associations between newspaper readership, civic duty, and professional prestige. We conclude by reflecting on the implications of these trends for print newspapers and their role in society.

scholarly journals Working with circus artists: Reflections on a process of collaborative research, participation and commitment

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julieta Infantino
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Research Participation ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
The City

The purpose of this article is to share some reflections on the long research experience I have developed with circus artists in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. These reflections revolve around the question of the contributions of social sciences, particularly anthropology, through research practices conducted in collaboration with artists. I am interested in rethinking the role of the researcher by understanding science from a conception in which commitment, collaboration, and participatory knowledge-building can potentiate research practices and, at the same time, create dilemmas and challenges. What are the theoretical-methodological implications of the roles we can play throughout a long research process? What are the tools we can use when conducting research on the fields we also participate in, socially and politically? How can we reconcile the time it takes to conduct academic work with the short amount of time it takes for events to unfold in real-time?

The Subte as Looking Machine into the City

Transfers ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-85
Author(s):  
Araceli Masterson-Algar
Keyword(s):  
Urban History ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
General Direction ◽  
Subway Train ◽  
The City

Moebius (1996) is the first cinematographic production of the “Universidad del Cine” of Buenos Aires. It is the collective project of forty-five film students under the general direction of Gustavo Mosquera. The film narrates the mysterious disappearance of a subway train along the last addition to its underground network: the “línea perimetral.” In search for answers, a topologist named Daniel Pratt initiates an allegorical journey into Moebius, a subway trajectory that is timeless but includes all times. This article explores the role of Moebius' subway as a metaphor to understand the urban. Drawing from Buenos Aires' urban history this filmic analysis ties the Subte to Buenos Aires' processes of capital accumulation and unveils the fissures of its modern spaces.

Football Clubs and Neighbourhoods in Buenos Aires before 1943: The Role of Political Linkages and Personal Influence

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 557-585 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOEL HOROWITZ
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Civic Culture ◽  
South American ◽  
Personal Influence ◽  
Political World ◽  
Football Clubs ◽  
Soccer Teams ◽  
American Cities ◽  
The City

AbstractIn the first decades of the twentieth century, the inhabitants of greater Buenos Aires formed innumerable football clubs, as part of a burgeoning civic culture. Many of these clubs not only proved enduring but helped to shape the sense of neighbourhood that dominated much of the cultural and political world of the city. In this they differed from clubs in other South American cities, which tended to have much less of a barrio identity. However, successful soccer teams required assistance to acquire land and construct stadiums. The evidence of club records and the local press shows that as the clubs grew in size and importance, politicians and other leading neighbourhood figures became critical in obtaining the necessary resources for them, but in turn they made use of their association with the clubs to aid their election campaigns and build up their constituencies and clienteles.

Interactive leadership in turbulent school climates. An exploratory study of high school principals from the City of Buenos Aires

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Romero ◽  
Gabriela Krichesky
Keyword(s):  
School Climate ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Learning Climate ◽  
Instructional Role ◽  
The City

School leadership has been identified as a key function to assuring quality in education. Principals’ leadership can have a direct effect on students’ learning by improving teaching, or an indirect effect by creating conditions that foster learning. This exploratory study aims to understand how school principals exercise their leadership and its relation with the learning climate of their schools. We analyzed two dimensions: principals’ agendas and school climate perception, using the questionnaire provided by the TALIS examination, in a sample of 82 principals from secondary schools in the City of Buenos Aires. Administrative and leadership tasks and meetings occupy first place in the agenda of the principals from our sample. However, principals devote almost half of their time to interactions with non-teacher members of the school community. This suggests the preponderance of an “ interactive leadership”, which appears as a response towards “turbulent school climates”. Nevertheless, it is precisely the instructional role of principals that can effectively improve learning conditions by operating on the academic dimension of school climate. This requires training policies and professional development opportunities that improve the instructional role of school leaders so that they can develop a more proactive leadership.

scholarly journals ΜΕΤΑΝΑΣΤΕΥΣΗ ΚΑΙ ΑΣΤΙΚΟΠΟΙΗΣΗ. Η ΕΓΚΑΤΑΣΤΑΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΕΥΡΩΠΑΙΩΝ ΜΕΤΑΝΑΣΤΩΝ ΣΤΗΝ ΠΟΛΗ ΤΟΥ ΜΠΟΥΕΝΟΣ ΑΪΡΕΣ (1880-1920)

Μνήμων ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
ΜΑΡΙΑ ΔΑΜΗΛΑΚΟΥ
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Urban Network ◽  
Early Arrival ◽  
The City

<p>Maria Damilakou, Immigration and Urbanisation. The Settlement of European Immigrants in the City of Buenos Aires (1880-1920)</p><p>The present article is based on the national census of Argentina as wellas on the municipal census of the city of Buenos Aires, during the period 1869-1914; it aims to illuminate certain aspects of the mutual relationship developed between the immigrants' action and the urban space where they were called to settle in. The choices of housing and the «routes» of the different ethnic groups in the neighbourhoods and suburbs of the city were inserted in a wider context, defined by structural factors related to work, social hierarchies and urban space's organization. However, this context did not exist independently from the immigrants' action: their cultural characteristics, desires and decisions were constantly creating new conditions that contributed to the successive transformations of Buenos Aires' urban network. The map of the different settlements of the ethnic groups in the city of Buenos Aires reveals, on the one hand, the absence of closed ghettoes and exclusive neighbourhoods and, on the other hand, the tendency of the ethnic groups to be concentrated in certain zones; these tendencies oblige us to moderate both the image of an harmonic coexistence of all immigrants, as well as the model based on the existence of clear boundaries among ethnic groups, accordingly to their position in the social hierarchies. Many and varying factors seem to have conditioned the settlement patterns of ethnic groups: the great number and the early arrival of Italian and Spanish immigrants contributed to their dispersion all over the city, whereas smaller ethnic groups such as the Portuguese and the British, tended to be more concentrated in certain neighbourhoods. The remarkable concentration of certain groups, such as the French and the British, was also due to their high socio-economic level; Finally, the cohesion of latter immigrant groups —Russian Jews, Syrianand Lebanese— could be attributed to their cultural particularity incomparison to the host society. However, the map of the settlements of the ethnic groups was not a static one but was constantly changing: since the beginning of the 20th century until 1914, one could observe a high mobility towards the city's periphery, related to the access to the proper house, which determined the city's expansion patterns. The immigrants' action in the suburbs determined not only Buenos Aires' urbanisation process but also the architecture and the neighbourhoods' style. Despite the decisive role of mass transports' expansion and the opportunities offered by the landmarket, immigrants' mobility towards the suburbs can not be conceived independently of the ethnic social networks through which many immigrants followed the steps of their parents and fellow countrymen. Besides, the role of the argentine state in the housing problem was limited: the attempt to create some state subsidized houses in the periphery had very relative results and the poor suburbs were mostly inhabited through more «spontaneous» mechanisms, based on the ethnic social networks.</p>

scholarly journals Vecinos en alerta: un rol difícil de institucionalizar. Estudio en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires

2019 ◽  
pp. 151-166
Author(s):  
Violeta Dikenstein
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
The South ◽  
The City ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Participatory Observation

En este artículo nos proponemos analizar la actividad de un conjunto de actores, residentes de un barrio del sur de la ciudad de Buenos Aires, que hacen de la inseguridad su ámbito de intervención, de ejercicio y de “trabajo”, a quienes denominamos –provisoriamente– vecinos en alerta. Desde una perspectiva cualitativa basada en la realización de entrevistas en profundidad con los actores implicados en el proceso estudiado y observación participante en los múltiples escenarios por donde circulan, reconstruimos los perfiles de los vecinos en alerta, el repertorio de actividades que llevan adelante, las relaciones que establecen entre sí y con otros actores, los lazos de coordinación y conflicto que entablan en este transcurso, así como las situaciones de interacción en las que este rol entra en juego. Hallamos que hay un repertorio compartido de actividades que desempeñan estos actores, variado dentro de ciertos límites. También, que el rol de vecino en alerta está sujeto a una constante negociación y redefinición, en las instancias de encuentro con diversas autoridades institucionales encargadas de la seguridad. Abstract In this article we propose to analyze the activity of a group of people, residents of a neighborhood in the south of the city of Buenos Aires, who make insecurity their area of intervention, exercise and "work", whom we call alert neighbors. From a qualitative perspective based on in-depth interviews with those involved in the process studied, and participatory observation in the scenarios where they circulate, we describe the profiles of the alert neighbors, the repertoire of activities that they carry out, the relationships they establish among themselves and with other actors, the bonds of coordination and conflict that they establish in this course, as well as the situations of interaction in which this role comes into play. We find that there is a shared repertoire of activities performed by these actors, varied within certain limits. Also, that the role of alert neighbor is subject to constant negotiation and redefinition, in the instances of meeting with various institutional authorities in charge of security.

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