COVID-19 in Real Time: Comparing the Struggle of Three Low-Income Neighbourhoods in Buenos Aires
The prestigious journal Environment & Urbanization has recently published a synthesis of the research carried out by the Observatory on Latin America with the support of Chalmers University of Gothenburg and the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA). The...
Metadata RoundTable: Dilemmas of data construction processes. SI + Keywords Conference
Authors:Table Coordinators:Margarita Gutman and Nicolás Quiroga Exhibitors:Emmanuel Borthiry, Emiliano Calomarde, Javier Nesprias, Marcelo A. Soria, Margarita Gutman, Martin Pablo Groisman, Milagros Dolabani, Nicolás Quiroga, Silvana Ferreyra, Wanda Juares and Ximena...
Futures from the Past · Second Panel Discussion · Video of the event
*This was an online Zoom webinar in Spanish* Wednesday, September 8th, 2021 In this second panel event, members of the international research training group “Temporalities of Future” presented research on Latin American futures formulated in the past....
Course Report · State, politics and democracy in Latin America
The international course “State, politics and democracy in Latin America” was promoted with the Puebla Group, the Observatory on Latin America of the New School, the Subrectoría de Extensión de la Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and the...
OLA research work presented at the 17th International Conference on Urban Health ´Transforming our Collective Urban Future: Learning from COVID-19´
Online: 6-8 July 2021 On July 7, 2021, the OLA project “COVID-19 in Real Time: Comparing the Struggle of Three Slums in Buenos Aires” was presented in the session “COVID-19, housing, and health: learning from pandemic responses from across the Americas” from the 17...
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