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...
The Two Bolivias: Crisis, uncertainty and elections
Sunday, October 20, 2019, at 8:00 p.m. Some voices denounced a possible fraud. The general elections for President, Vice President, Senators, Deputies and Supra-State Representatives of the Plurinational State of Bolivia had been held, with complaints of digital...
Popular feminism and its relationship with social and political development in Latin America
To speak of feminism in the 21st century is to speak of different types of feminisms, with different approaches, which, on some occasions, even disagree with each other. And it is that feminism, like any social and political movement, has evolved and has incorporated...Emergence of territorial vulnerabilities in the digital public space
Authors: Margarita Gutman, Javier Nesprias, Ximena Puppoo Links: Go to the article (in Spanish) Go to the online magazine Cuestión Urbana – #7 · Junio 2020 SUMMARY In recent years, digital technologies have been fully integrated into both private life and...
Cities and COVID-19: New Directions for Urban Research and Public Policies
Organized by The Knowledge Platform for Urban Transformation, in partnership with the project “Science Advice and COVID-19” of the International Network for Government Science Advice, the Coordination of Humanities, the Coordination for Scientific Research and the...
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