Mrs Lucila Newell

Research Student

Geography

Qualifications

Licenciada in Sociology with honours (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina); MSc Cities, Space and Society (LSE)

Research Interests

Rubbish politics in Buenos Aires
My research aims to study the forms and possibilities of urban democracy through research on rubbish politics in Buenos Aires, Argentina. By politics of rubbish I mean the complex entanglements of humans and non humans that get coordinated to construct the rubbish process, and that make it a political process. I will use some of the tools that Actor Network Theory (ANT) proposes in order to understand how everyday practices enact rubbish and democracy in Buenos Aires.

The main questions that drive this research are:

• How is the urban rubbish process enacted in Buenos Aires?
• How/where/who/what makes the urban rubbish process political?
  • Who is to be concerned?
  • What is the matter of concern?
  • How does it get done? Which procedures, mediations, forms of representation are being used and by whom?
• What are the links between the politics of urban rubbish and democracy? What are the normative issues that emerge from this? 

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