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1. 1. Living la Inseguridad and Making Sense of Urban Poor : A Discourse Analysis of Space and Bodies in Buenos Aires Transformed by Neoliberalism

   University essay from Institutionen för genus, kultur och historia

   Author : Jenny Ingridsdotter; [2011]
   Keywords : Argentina; Urban poor; Fear; Motherhood; Buenos Aires; Discourse; Space; Neoliberalism; Security; Crime; Racism; Subaltern classes; Cartoneros; Middle-class; Biopower; Colonialism; Discourse theor; Auto-Ethnography; Segregation; Exclusion;

   Abstract : In this thesis ethnographical interviews with women in Buenos Aires are analyzed with discourse theory in order to examine how discourses of safe/unsafe and urban poor construct places and bodies. A central element of discourse is argued to be the partially fixed inscription of danger in territories and bodies of the urban poor. READ MORE

3. 2. Understanding the Inefficacy of Structural Adjustment Programs in Latin America

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Andrew Mccutchan; [2010]
   Keywords : neoliberalism; World Bank ; Structural Adjustment Programs; International Monetary Fund; Latin America; Business and Economics; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This paper examines in the context of their history and their impetus the implementation of structural adjustment programs in Peru, Argentina and Bolivia. The failure of the SAPs to meet their desired result is determined to be an extension of insufficient social welfare institutions, which were not initially considered to be important for a smooth transition towards market oriented reforms and sustained economic growth. READ MORE