Operaciones de gobernanza urbana en el sur “más vulnerable” de la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Comuna 8, la producción de nuevas “oportunidades” y Viejas desigualdades

Abstract

In the discussion on urban regeneration processes and entrepreneurism as the axis of said policy, the case of the City of Buenos Aires is usually presented from the perspective of projects that cut out and illuminate central areas, generating “exclusive fragments of the city” in its search for valuing the local space in the global market of cities. The proposal of this article is to focus on the analysis of a series of urban governance operations arti-culated on the periphery of the city – which historically concentrates the “most deficient” socioeconomic, housing and educational indicators –, emphasizing the logic from which operates the local state. In this context, the possibilities of transformation promised in this “return” of the State are investigated, as well as the contested character of the production of “opportunities”.