کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5048220 1370990 2015 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Unsettling the role of culture as panacea: The politics of culture-led urban regeneration in Buenos Aires
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
نادیده گرفتن نقش فرهنگ به عنوان پانزده: سیاست بازسازی شهری تحت کنترل فرهنگی در بوینس آیرس
کلمات کلیدی
بازسازی شهری تحت هدایت فرهنگی، سیاست های فرهنگی، بوینس آیرس، معماری عمومی، اداره پست، میراث،
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
چکیده انگلیسی


- I explore the politics of culture-led urban regeneration in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from a sociological perspective.
- I develop an innovative methodological strategy engaging with the past, present and future of an emblematic public building.
- I formulate a critique of culture's function as a panacea examining the disputes over its symbolic and practical function.
- I show the need to engage empirically with the entanglement between culture and politics in Latin America.

In recent years the rise of culture as a universal cure to a myriad of urban, social and economic 'diseases' has been celebrated without precedent, both in policy and academic accounts. Unlike these celebratory discourses, this paper provides a critique of the politics underpinning culture-led urban regeneration in order to unsettle the role of culture as panacea. Drawing on a case study - the on-going redevelopment of the post office palace into a commemorative cultural centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina - the analysis offers an in-depth account of the policy process by which industrial heritage is redeveloped through a cultural rhetoric. The analysis reveals how the recycling of the post office building enabled multiple meanings of culture to emerge and circulate within a range of policy, architectural, urban regeneration, real estate and media discourses. These, in turn, express existing disputes over the making of cultural policies, the uses of heritage, the image of the capital city and the value of the post office. In the redevelopment of the postal building, the paper argues, policy invocations of culture were aimed at de-politicising cultural activities in post-2001/2002 crisis Argentina, when politics had become a synonym of corruption and mismanagement. The paper concludes by drawing attention to the urgent need to adopt a critical perspective to the study of culture-led urban regeneration in Latin America, one which situates the analysis in historical and political terms and acknowledges the contending circumstances out of which these urban strategies often emerge.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: City, Culture and Society - Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2015, Pages 9-18
نویسندگان
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