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  • Research presentation · Sociotechnical Explorer: Digital Territorial Demands in Buenos Aires

    Room 716 66 W 12th Street, New York, NY, United States

    This text presents and discusses the scope of a set of visual tools, created to interpret complex data about territorial conflicts publicized by civil society through webs, blogs, and YouTube. We focus on demands sparked by problems in urban public and private space, infrastructure and environment, associated with hydric basins, sub-basins, and states of vulnerability and risk. These demands are mostly made visible by neighbors’ associations, alternative local media, NGOs, political associations, and individuals.

  • Online: Digital City: Emerging Territories and Unfulfilled Rights

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    This bilingual publication (Spanish and English) identifies and analyzes claims published on a selection of digital platforms by individuals and social groups from the most vulnerable neighbourhoods located south of Buenos Aires city.

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    Launch of the book La vulnerabilidad ante la incertidumbre

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    Launch of the book Vulnerability to Uncertainty. The situation of the child and adolescent population in Paraguay during the COVID-19 pandemic. (La vulnerabilidad ante la incertidumbre. La situación de la población infantil y adolescente en Paraguay durante la pandemia de COVID-19.)

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    Book Launch · The Walls of Santiago

    Amphitheater 404, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall 66 W. 12th Street, New York, NY, United States

    Terri Gordon-Zolov and Eric Zolov—who were in Santiago to witness and document the protests from their very beginnings—offer a vivid catalog of Chilean wall art, along with reflections on its artistic antecedents, the context of global protest movements, and the long shadow cast by Chile’s authoritarian past.

  • Cities and Economic Inequality in Latin America

    Dorothy Hirshon Suite, Arnhold Hall, room l203, 2nd floor 55 West 13th Street, New York, NY, United States

    This book examines trends and determinants of economic inequality in cities in Latin America, the world’s most unequal region. It explores how the gap between ...

  • Book Launch: Towards A New Urban Practice

    Wollman Hall | The New School 65W. 11th Street, New York, NY, United States

    Towards a New Urban Practice marks this moment as a point of reflection. Using the programme as an archive, the book reflects on questions of contemporary urban knowledge, interdisciplinary and. southern urban pedagogy

  • Debates Interuniversitarios

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    This first issue of Revista Debates Interuniversitarios, published by the Center for Financial and Tax Law Studies at the University of Buenos Aires, has been jointly edited with the Observatory on Latin America (OLA/The New School) and the University of Salamanca. It contains critical reflections from thirty-four Argentine, North American, and European authors on the […]

  • ONLINE | Tools for Spatial Economic Planning Book Event

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    Virtual Event

    At this virtual Book Launch, the book’s authors will provide an overview of the spatial economic tools in the book.  Then, representatives of major development organizations will provide perspective, giving a

  • Book Launch · The Tao of K-drama: Wise Narratives for a Troubled World

    Wolff Conference Room 6 East 16th Street, New York, NY, United States

    The inaugural volume in the Narrative Medicine series, The Tao of K-Drama is both scholarly and deeply personal. Drawing on Fullilove's work in community psychiatry and her lived experience as an African American woman, the book makes a compelling case for popular storytelling as a form of narrative medicine