Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2004
Abstract
This paper explores how, in the Buenos Aires of neoliberalism, middle-class residents strove to make sense of their own impoverishment and their disenfranchisement by generating a consensus on how this city’s modernity was being eroded by the presence of a large mestizo lower class. Through an analysis of the discourse that constructed the urban poor as “barbaric” (i.e., dangerous, polluting, and foreign), I suggest that this representation not only sought to reinforce the fading social difference between the middle- and the lower class, but it also contributed to denying the latter its citizenship in a Buenos Aires that struggled to be “modern”.
Recommended Citation
Guano, Emanuela, "The Denial of Citizenship: “Barbaric” Buenos Aires and the Middle-Class Imaginary" (2004). Anthropology Faculty Publications. 18.
https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/anthro_facpub/18
Comments
Author accepted manuscript version of an article published by Wiley in
Guano, Emanuela. 2004. “The Denial of Citizenship: ‘Barbaric’ Buenos Aires and the Middle-Class Imaginary.” City & Society 16 (1): 69–97. https://doi.org/10.1525/city.2004.16.1.69.