The Social Life of the MallFranziska ReiffenLabel: Transcript VerlagDescription: Paseo La Estación a mall in Buenos Aires is as much a place of transit as a place of encounter where long-term residents and newcomers people with and without jobs homeowners and those without housing meet. In the process social tensions emerge especially when classist migrantizing and moralizing distinctions become relevant in conflict-laden negotiations of belonging. In an ethnography of the mall Franziska Reiffen explores how people find opportunities for social economic and political participation in precarious conditions and shows how people create socially meaningful places in a city characterized by diversity inequality and mobility.
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