The Social Life of the Mall

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The Social Life of the Mall is written by Franziska Reiffen and published by transcript Verlag. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3839473640 (ISBN 10) and 9783839473641 (ISBN 13).

Paseo La Estación, a mall in Buenos Aires, is as much a place of transit as a place of encounter, where long-term residents and newcomers, people with and without jobs, homeowners and those without housing meet. In the process, social tensions emerge, especially when classist, migrantizing, and moralizing distinctions become relevant in conflict-laden negotiations of belonging. In an ethnography of the mall, Franziska Reiffen explores how people find opportunities for social, economic, and political participation in precarious conditions, and shows how people create socially meaningful places in a city characterized by diversity, inequality, and mobility.