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Latino Communities In The United States: Place-Making In The Pre-World War Ii, Post-World War, And Contemporary City, Clara Irazabal, Ramzi Farhat
Latino Communities In The United States: Place-Making In The Pre-World War Ii, Post-World War, And Contemporary City, Clara Irazabal, Ramzi Farhat
Clara Irazabal
Scholarship on Latino communities in the United States has yet to catch up with the rapid growth of this ethnic population in the country. Understanding the Latino urban experience and developing plans to better respond to both the needs of Latino communities and their integration within society is not only relevant, but also urgently necessary. Using the city of Los Angeles as a main lens, in addition to a general look at the urban Southwest, we contribute to the scholarship on the subject with a review of literature on Latino communities. We structure the review as an assessment of the …
Prologue: Ordinary Places, Extraordinary Events, Clara Irazabal
Prologue: Ordinary Places, Extraordinary Events, Clara Irazabal
Clara Irazabal
Scholars have argued that public space is a prerequisite for the expression, representation, preservation, and/or enhancement of democracy (Sassen, 1996; Holston, 1989, 1999; Caldeira, 2000; Low, 2000; Low and Smith, 2006). However, this optimistic outlook is betrayed in reality by the many examples in recent history when public spaces have been used for the deployment and reproduction of totalitarian regimes. In the Americas, we can recount the experiences of Pinochet’s Santiago, Videla’s Buenos Aires, Strossner’s Asuncion, and Pérez Jiménez’s Caracas, among others. Yet, even in those cases, political demonstrations in public spaces conversely played a critical role in the eventual …
Space, Revolution And Resistance: Ordinary Places And Extraordinary Events In Caracas, Clara Irazabal
Space, Revolution And Resistance: Ordinary Places And Extraordinary Events In Caracas, Clara Irazabal
Clara Irazabal
As discussed in the introduction, many scholars have argued that public space is a prerequisite for the expression, representation, preservation and enhancement of democracy (Boudreau, 2000; Caldeira, 2000; Holston and Appadurai, 1999; Low, 2000; Sassen, 1996; Low and Smith, 2006). This has not been more true than in the capital cities of Latin America in recent decades, where political demonstrations have played a critical role in the demise of totalitarian regimes and the reestablishment of democracy. Caracas, capital city of Venezuela, is a prime example in that key urban spaces have been sites for popular demonstrations since Hugo Chavez became …