The flammable city: Infrastructure, temporalities, and social struggles in Dock Sud, Buenos Aires

IF 4.1 1区 经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Simone Vegliò
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This article explores the impacts of large-scale infrastructure operations in Buenos Aires. Focussing on neo-extractive and logistical infrastructures in the southern area of Dock Sud, it investigates how these infrastructures urbanise – namely, how they integrate into urban spaces and the socio-spatial and material dynamics they generate. It does so by investigating the relationships between materiality and temporality, highlighting their complex and multifaceted interplay. While adopting a view from below – that is, by analysing the social conflicts experienced by those living in the spaces surrounding these infrastructures – the discussion sheds light on how Dock Sud’s urban materiality is contested through the creation of distinct and often conflicting temporalities. Specifically, the article delves into the socio-material situation of Villa Inflamable shantytown by scrutinising what it terms the politics of ‘mientras tanto’ [meanwhile], showing how residents reversed the state’s and municipality’s promotion of a prolonged condition of waiting to confront their extremely precarious and hazardous urban conditions. It contends that the mientras tanto reveals the fragmented ‘time – space’ of infrastructure, shedding light on its profoundly uneven socio-material dynamics and the related disputes that play out at the level of temporalities. The article argues that Dock Sud can be understood as the manifestation of a flammable city – specifically, the combination of the tireless political action conducted by the residents on the one hand, and the severe environmental conditions that the area suffers on the other.
易燃的城市:布宜诺斯艾利斯南码头的基础设施、临时性和社会斗争
本文探讨了布宜诺斯艾利斯大规模基础设施运营的影响。重点关注南码头南部地区的新采掘和物流基础设施,研究这些基础设施如何城市化,即它们如何融入城市空间以及它们产生的社会空间和物质动态。它通过研究物质性和时间性之间的关系,突出它们复杂和多方面的相互作用来做到这一点。通过分析生活在这些基础设施周围空间的人们所经历的社会冲突,我们采用了自下而上的观点,通过创造独特的、经常相互冲突的时间性,我们的讨论揭示了南码头的城市物质性是如何受到争议的。具体来说,这篇文章深入探讨了Villa Inflamable棚户区的社会物质状况,通过审视其所谓的“mientras tanto”政治[与此同时],展示了居民如何扭转国家和市政当局提倡的长期等待状态,以面对他们极端不稳定和危险的城市条件。它认为,mientras tanto揭示了基础设施的碎片化“时间-空间”,揭示了其深刻的不平衡的社会-物质动态以及在暂时性层面上发挥作用的相关争议。文章认为,南码头可以被理解为一个易燃城市的表现——具体来说,是居民不懈的政治行动和该地区所遭受的严峻环境条件的结合。
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Urban Studies
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期刊介绍: Urban Studies was first published in 1964 to provide an international forum of social and economic contributions to the fields of urban and regional planning. Since then, the Journal has expanded to encompass the increasing range of disciplines and approaches that have been brought to bear on urban and regional problems. Contents include original articles, notes and comments, and a comprehensive book review section. Regular contributions are drawn from the fields of economics, planning, political science, statistics, geography, sociology, population studies and public administration.
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