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2. Concrete Dreams : Practice, Value, and Built Environments in Post-Crisis Buenos Aires
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Nicholas D'Avella and Nicholas D'Avella
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- Construction industry--Argentina--Buenos Aires--History--21st century, Construction industry--Social aspects--Argentina--Buenos Aires--21st century, Construction industry--Economic aspects--Argentina--Buenos Aires--21st century
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In Concrete Dreams Nicholas D'Avella examines the changing social and economic lives of buildings in the context of a construction boom following Argentina's political and economic crisis of 2001. D'Avella tells the stories of small-scale investors who turned to real estate as an alternative to a financial system they no longer trusted, of architects who struggled to maintain artistic values and political commitments in the face of the ongoing commodification of their work, and of residents-turned-activists who worked to protect their neighborhoods and city from being overtaken by new development. Such forms of everyday engagement with buildings, he argues, produce divergent forms of value that persist in tension with hegemonic forms of value. In the dreams attached to built environments and the material forms in which those dreams are articulated—from charts and graphs to architectural drawings, urban planning codes, and tango lyrics—D'Avella finds a blueprint for building livable futures in which people can survive alongside and even push back against the hegemony of capitalism.
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- 2019
3. What You Don't Know About AIDS Could Fill a Museum
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Theodore Kerr, Dorothee Richter, Ronald Kolb, Volker Schartner, Biotop 3000, Szymon Adamczak, Rahne Alexander, Jordan Arseneault, Kelvin Atmadibrata, Nicholas D’Avella, Adam Barbu, Emily Bass, Edward Belleville, Vladimir Čajkovac, Jean Carlomusto, Renaud Chantraine, Marika Cifor, Jaime Shearn Coan, Emily Colucci, Siân Cook, Rev. Michael J. Crumpler, Avram Finkelstein, Lyndon K. Gill, Stamatina Gregory, Kate Hallstead, Heather Holmes, Catalina Imizcoz, Alexandra Juhasz, Luiza Kempińska, Michael McFadden, Miiro Michael, Florent Molle, Carlos Motta, Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad, Sandrine Musso, Louie Ortiz-Fonseca, Manon S. Parry, Benji de la Piedra, John Arthur Peetz, Ricky Price, Dudu Quintanilha, Yvette Raphael, John Paul Ricco, Hugh Ryan, Nelson Santos, Charan Singh, Greg Thorpe, Alper Turan, Mavi Veloso, Hubert Zięba, Stephanie Carwin, Theodore Kerr, Dorothee Richter, Ronald Kolb, Volker Schartner, Biotop 3000, Szymon Adamczak, Rahne Alexander, Jordan Arseneault, Kelvin Atmadibrata, Nicholas D’Avella, Adam Barbu, Emily Bass, Edward Belleville, Vladimir Čajkovac, Jean Carlomusto, Renaud Chantraine, Marika Cifor, Jaime Shearn Coan, Emily Colucci, Siân Cook, Rev. Michael J. Crumpler, Avram Finkelstein, Lyndon K. Gill, Stamatina Gregory, Kate Hallstead, Heather Holmes, Catalina Imizcoz, Alexandra Juhasz, Luiza Kempińska, Michael McFadden, Miiro Michael, Florent Molle, Carlos Motta, Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad, Sandrine Musso, Louie Ortiz-Fonseca, Manon S. Parry, Benji de la Piedra, John Arthur Peetz, Ricky Price, Dudu Quintanilha, Yvette Raphael, John Paul Ricco, Hugh Ryan, Nelson Santos, Charan Singh, Greg Thorpe, Alper Turan, Mavi Veloso, Hubert Zięba, and Stephanie Carwin
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This issue focuses on HIV, culture and curation, edited by scholar and organizer Theodore (ted) Kerr. The print and online issue features over 40 contributions—including essays, conversations, visual projects, reprints, and personal reflections—from artists, activists, academics, and writers from around the world, exploring AIDS-related culture in the 21st century, through four themes: forgetting, seeing, collecting, and making, all of which reflect on both the historical turn in contemporary AIDS cultural production, and the ongoing need to keep an eye on the present., https://www.librarystack.org/what-you-dont-know-about-aids-could-fill-a-museum/?ref=unknown
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- 2019
4. Ecologies of Investment: Crisis Histories and Brick Futures in Argentina
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Nicholas D'Avella
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Cultural anthropology ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Real estate ,Investment (macroeconomics) ,Boom ,Globalization ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Economy ,Currency ,Anthropology ,Cash ,Economics ,Futures contract ,media_common - Abstract
This article describes an ecological approach to investment in Argentina. This approach involves seeing investments as part of an emergent web of relations among constitutive and constituting parts. Such a sensibility is central to Argentine economic life, in which no investment is treated like any other. Care about attributing equivalence and attention to the relationality of investments was also central to how people worked to save their savings in the aftermath of the Argentine economic crisis of 2001. But Argentines are not just invested in dollars and pesos, bank accounts and cash; they are also invested in their economic past. As a result, the history of Argentine economic life is under a constant process of (re)narration, as Argentines reflect upon their rocky economic past in films, memoirs, comic monologues, and stories told among family and friends. I follow Argentines in attending to the past as a means to engage current ecologies of investment, paying particular attention to the history of currency and banking in Argentina, which together helped produce a boom in real estate investment in the years following the crisis. I also suggest that thinking ecologically about investments can be useful for anthropologists who are compelled to look beyond global descriptions of the economy.
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- 2014
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