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Get together to get away and reproduce class. Residential strategies of the middle class, in the margins assigned by the market.The case of the population benefiting from the PROCREAR plan in the city of La Plata (2013-2015), Argentina.

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No. 60 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5370.2020.58679

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In Latin American urban studies, there is a vacancy regarding the role of the middle classes in the production of the city. Also, on the way in which those territorial anchorages affected the construction of the class itself. This article seeks to contribute to this vacation by analyzing the residential strategy carried out by beneficiaries of a mortgage program for housing for the Argentine middle classes (2012-2015). The case study on which we are based is that of the city of La Plata (2013-2015). Our specific objectives are, (1) to analyze the distancing and social closeness operations that drove this strategy, stopping on how the neighborhood externalities were put into play and the perceptions regarding the "fair" levels of intervention state. And (2) reconstruct the land searches and evaluations of different areas of the city carried out by a group of beneficiaries, to analyze them in relation to the local urban dynamics. For this, we adopt a pragmatic-pragmatist theoretical perspective and a qualitative methodological approach based on three data sources: field observation, in-depth interviews, and virtual ethnography. Our main conclusion is that strategy for an active process of social and spatial differentiation. An operation of social approach in the integral quality of the middle classes from La Plata — seeking to protect (and produce) their position in the social space — reproduced a segmented way of residing in the city.

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La Plata (Argentina), middle classes, neighborhood externality, residential strategy, urban context.

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Ventura, V. (2020). Get together to get away and reproduce class. Residential strategies of the middle class, in the margins assigned by the market.The case of the population benefiting from the PROCREAR plan in the city of La Plata (2013-2015), Argentina. Investigaciones Geográficas, (60), 83–100. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5370.2020.58679
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