Construir la ciudadanía colectivamente

Prácticas urbanas de una asamblea popular en Buenos Aires, Argentina

Bibliographic Data

ID22011970
AuthorsFernanda Valeria Torres (0000-0002-2046-0974, corresponding author)
Year2021
Issue14
Pages11-32
Publication date2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHábitat y Sociedad (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2173-125X • E-ISSN: 2173-125X
PublisherEditorial Universidad de Sevilla (PUBLISHER • ES)
DOI10.12795/habitatysociedad.2021.i14.02
OpenAlexW3209101066
LanguageES
Citations received1
References cited19

Traditional ideas about citizenship in their liberal conception emphasize the role played by the individual as the holder of rights and duties. These ideas have been strongly questioned by various currents of thought and from some fields of studies, such as urban studies. In this paper we seek to contribute to these debates by analyzing the urban practices of a popular assembly in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA-Argentina). These practices are enmeshed in disputes between the old and the new, the public and the private, and the visible and invisible, configuring citizenships that promote ways of understanding and building more participatory and democratic cities. We analyze the activities of “making visible” and activism in relation to the homelessness problem as well as the Assembly’s intention of building an urban habitat anchored in the decommodification of the city and in collective projects. We conclude that this case testifies to the construction of citizen experiences that have great potential to displace the individualistic corset with which citizens’ rights are usually defined and defended

Citizen journalism · Citizenship · Democracy · Individualism · Participatory democracy · Political science · Politics · Right to the city · Sociology · Latin American socio-political dynamics · Latin American Urban Studies · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America

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