Villas miseria, favelas, callampas, shantytowns, and bidonvilles are not just different names for informal settlements; they also reflect the distinctiveness of each territory and its socio-political and economic processes. In Historia de las Villas en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Snitcofsky provides a historical reconstruction of the villas in Argentina’s capital city. Her approach centers on the legacies of community based organizations, highlighting their role in providing basic infrastructure services and asserting claims against the state. In a certain way, this is a history of the city seen from its margins, from the territories that were not planned by the state but later addressed by it in response to the struggle of its inhabitants
Lugares de ciudadanía, experiencias de ciudadanización: investigaciones etnográficas en relación con el derecho a la vivienda en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires
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