Dictatorship and the Razing of the City’s Villas

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xiii
4. Introduction 1
5. Buenos Aires: A Brief History of the Last Five Hundred Years 7
6. I The Living City
7. Shopping in the City 37
8. From Yellow Fever to COVID-19: Epidemics and Inequalities in the City 39
9. The Colectivo, an Innovation for the Modern City 43
10. New Neighborhoods and the Expansion of City Life 46
11. Green Spaces 48
12. Neighborhood Associations 50
13. El Once: The Changing Character of an Iconic Jewish Neighborhood 52
14. The Single-Family Home as a Cultural and Political Ideal 54
15. Vertical Living 57
16. Dictatorship and the Razing of the City’s Villas 59
17. The Permanence of “Emergency” Settlements 61
18. Contrasts in Greater Buenos Aires 64
19. II Taking to the Street
20. Celebrations in the Plaza in the Early Nineteenth Century 79
21. The Plaza and the Demands of the People 81
22. The Streets of Revelry: Carnaval 82
23. Workers Take to the Street 86
24. The Church in the Street 89
25. The Plaza de Mayo and Juan Perón 92
26. The Writing on the Wall 95
27. Public Violence 99
28. The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo 101
29. The Plaza as a Site of “Consensus” 105
30. The Escrache 106
31. A White Tent Occupies the Plaza 109
32. Public Kitchens and Piquetes 111
33. Ni Una Menos, Not One Less 113
34. Streets of Celebration 116
35. III Eating in Buenos Aires
36. Health, Civilization, and Sport 173
37. Social Classes Converge at the Racetrack 175
38. The Philosophers of Local Sport 177
39. El Pibe 180
40. The Right to Play: Women and the Game 182
41. Maradona, Maradonear 184
42. The Dream 186
43. The Fans: La Hinchada 189
44. An Hincha Is Born, Not Made 192
45. Stadium Songs 194
46. The Thrill of the Superclásico 196
47. Violence 198
48. Soccer, Politics, and Protest 200
49. Toward an Inclusive Future 202
50. V Reading, Watching, and Listening in Buenos Aires
51. Education and Civilization 217
52. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento 219
53. New Vanguards 221
54. Media, Gender, and Feminist Thought 223
55. The Pampa in the City, via Radio 225
56. The Cinema, a Barrio Institution 227
57. The Buenos Aires Middle Class, on Screen 229
58. Radio, Television, and Celebrity Culture 231
59. An Open Letter to the Dictatorship 234
60. Humor under Censorship 236
61. Broad Audiences and Burned Books 238
62. Press under Dictatorship 241
63. The Bookstore, a Downtown Institution 244
64. VI The City at Night
65. The City of Fury 259
66. Nights at the Colón 262
67. Evening Theater, on Stage and in the Street 264
68. Tango and the Melodrama of the Milonguita 267
69. The Iconic Gardel 269
70. Decent Tango 271
71. Piazzola and the Reinvention of Tango 273
72. Sex, Telos, and Regulation 275
73. Queer Nights, Policed 277
74. State Terror in the Dark 280
75. Rebellious Rock 282
76. Sounds of Folk Cross Social Lines 286
77. Global/Local Sounds: Cumbia Villera and Argentine Trap 289
78. The Boliche 292
79. VII Written Cities
80. Visual Cities 303
81. The City Abandoned 307
82. Buenos Aires as Paris 308
83. Local Identity and Cosmopolitanism 310
84. Arrivals and Departures 312
85. The City of Psychoanalysis 314
86. Portraits of Buenos Aires 316
87. The Neighborhood and the City Center 318
88. A New Urban Folklore 321
89. Sketches of Buenos Aires 323
90. The Beautiful and Mundane Urban Grid 325
91. Catholic Encounters with the Peronist City 327
92. “Cabecita negra” 329
93. The City under Military Control 331
94. The Villa, from Without and Within 333
95. Social Mobility 335
96. White-Collar Workers 337
97. Critiques of the Buenos Aires Middle Class 339
98. Writing the Middle Classes 341
99. Enduring City 344
100. Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing 347
101. Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources 359
102. Index 371