Urban Precarity and Home: There Is No "Right to the City"

Employing qualitative and ethnographic data from field research in 2009 and 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this article seeks to position urban housing and the home at the center of discussions about social and spatial justice and the right to the city. A focus on housing and home is largely absen...

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Cities
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Ethnography
Evictions
Fieldwork
geografía urbana
home
Housing
Insecure
Latin America
Organizations
precarious housing
Qualitative analysis
right to the city
Social change
Social development
Social interactions
Social justice
Urban areas
urban geography
Urban studies
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城市地理学
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