The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

Spring Seminar 2010 SYLLABUS

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IFP Reading List: Buenos Aires IFP

Winter 2009

WRITTEN SOURCES:

Themes: youth, education 

• Binstock, Georgina and Allesandria Heinemann. 2009. "Growing Up Healthy". Argentine Youth: An Untapped Potential. Washington DC: The World Bank. Pp. 51-62
• Binstock, Georgina and Allesandria Heinemann. 2009. "Forming Families". Argentine Youth: An Untapped Potential. Washington DC: The World Bank. Pp. 63 - 74
• Garcette, Nicola, Estanislao Gacitúa-Marió, and Alessandra Heinemann. 2009. "Citizenship and Participation". Argentine Youth: An Untapped Potential. Washington DC: The World Bank. Pp. 75 - 92
• Giovagnoli, Paula and Dorte Verner. 2009. ‘‘Education and Learning". Argentine Youth: An Untapped Potential. Washington DC: The World Bank. Pp. 19 - 32
• Maurizio, Roxana, Dorte Verner, and Michael Justesen. 2009. "Labor Markets and Business Cycles". Argentine Youth: An Untapped Potential. Washington DC: The World Bank. Pp. 33 - 50
• Sánchez, Juan Felipe. 2009 "Youth Policy Directions to Reduce Youth at Risk". Argentine Youth: An Untapped Potential. Washington DC: The World Bank. Pp. 93 - 106
• Verner, Dorte. 2009. "Demographics and Framework". Argentine Youth: An Untapped Potential. Washington DC: The World Bank. Pp. 9 - 18

Themes: urban development, housing, Buenos Aires, gated communities

• Almansi, Florencia. Oct. 2009. "Regularizing land tenure within upgrading programmes in Argentina; the cases of Promeba and Rosario Habitat." Environment and Urbanization. 21.2. Pp. 389 - 413.
• Gasparini, Leonard and Walter Sosa Escudero. "Implicit Rents from Own-Housing and Income Distribution: Econometric Estimates for Greater Buenos Aires." CEDLAS 14:1 (2004): 1-29
• Scheinsohn, Mariano, and Cecilia Cabrera. Apr. 2009. "Social movements and the production of housing in Buenos Aires." Environment and Urbanization. 21:1. Pp. 109 - 126
• Thuillier, Guy. "Gated Communities in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, Argentina: A challenge for Town Planning." Housing Studies 20:2 (2005): 255-271 (Topic: gated communities, housing)

Themes: infrastructure, water, sanitation

• Alcázar, Lorena, Manuel A. Abdala, and Mary M. Shirley. (2000). "The Buenos Aires Water Concession." World Bank Policy Research Working Paper. No. 2311
• Hardoy, Ana, Jorgelina Harody, Gustavo Pandiella and Gastón Urquiza. "Governance for water and sanitation services in low-income settlements: experiences with partnership-based management in Moreno, Buenos Aires." Environment and Urbanization 17:1 (2005): 183-200 (Topic: water, infrastructure, poverty)

Themes: Latin-American urban development, city & governance, climate change

• Almansi, Florencia. Apr. 2009. "Rosario's development: interview with Miguel Lifschitz, mayor of Rosario, Argentina." Environment and Urbanization. 21:1. Pp. 19 - 36
• Hardoy, Jorgelina, and Gustavo Pandiella. Apr. 2009. "Urban poverty and vulnerability to climate change in Latin America". Environment and Urbanization. 21:1. Pp. 203 - 224
• Murgida, Ana M., and Silvia G González. "Social Risk, Climate Change and Human Security. An introductory case study in Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (Argentina)." Human Security and Climate Change: An International Workshop. Oslo, June 2005

Themes: environmental degradation, environmental justice, sustainable development, health

• Arrossi, Silvina. "Inequality and health in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires." Environment and Urbanization 8:2 (1996): 43-70 (Topics: mortality rates by age group in 20 districts)

Themes: World Bank documents, Matanza-Riachuelo sustainable development project

• ACUMAR. "Evaluacion Ambiental del Proyecto de Desarollo Sustentable de la Cuenca Hidrica Matanzas-Riachuelo". Buenos Aires: ACUMAR (Direct from website)
• Defensor del Pueblo de la Nación, et al. 2003. Informe Especial sobre la Cuenca Matanza-Riachuelo.
• International Lawyer Summer. 2009. "Latin American and Carribean: International Legal Development in Reivew: 2008". Buenos Aires: American Bar Association. (Topic: Legal, Environmental Pollution of M-R River)
• Valente, Marcela. 2009. "Argentina: Region's Largest Bank Loan Earmarked for Dirty River". Buenos Aires: Interpress Service.
• The World Bank. May 2009. "Country Partnership Strategy for the Republic of Argentina". The World Bank: Washington DC. (download directly from the World Bank Project Webpage)
• The World Bank. April 2009. "Integrated Safeguards Datasheet Appraisal Stage". The World Bank: Washington DC. (download directly from the World Bank Project Webpage)
• The World Bank. April 2009. "Project Appraisal Document on a Proposed Adaptable Program Loan in the Amount of US$ 840 Million to the Argentina Republic for the Matanza-Riachuelo Basin Sustainable Development Project Phase I (APL 1)". The World Bank Sustainable Development Department: Washington DC. (download directly from the World Bank Project Webpage)
• The World Bank. April 2009. "Project Information Document (PID) Appraisal Stage". The World Bank: Washington DC. (download directly from the World Bank Project Webpage)
• Universidad de Inv. y Des. (2007). Ambiental. "Programa Gestion de Residuos de Establecimientos de Salud en la Cuenca Matanza Riachuelo. Buenos Aires: SayDS.  (Themes: economics, financial crisis, government, employement)
• Delamata, Gabriela. "The Organization of Unemployed Workers in Greater Buenos Aires." CLAS Working Papers Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1wb6n7kw

• Gasparini, Leonardo, Mariana Marchionni, and Walter Sosa Escudero. 2005 "Characterizations of Inequality Changes through Microeconometric Decomposition: The Case of Greater Buenos Aires" in The Microeconomics of Income Distribution Dynamics in East Asia and Latin America. Washington DC: Oxford University Press and the World Bank (co-publication).
• Pessino, Carola. "Returns to Education in Greater Buenos Aires 1986-1993: from Hyperinflation to Stabilization and Beyond." Cuadernos de Economía 99:1 (1996): 205-226
• Pírez, Pedro. "Buenos Aires: fragmentation and privatization of the metropolitan city." Environment and Urbanization 14:1 (2002): 145-158 (Topics: financial, economic, globalization, privatization)
• Schamis, Hector E. "Argentina: Crisis and Democratic Consolidation." Journal of Democracy 13.2 (2002): 81-94. (Topic: 2001 Crisis)

Theme: miscellaneous

• Alcazar, Lorena and Raúl Andrade. (2008). "Urban Quality of Life: More Than Bricks and Mortar". Buenos Aires: IADB.
• Gasparini, Leonardo, Guillermo Cruces, Gonzalo Fernández, Fernando Alvarez de Celis. (2007). Quality of life in urban neighborhoods in Latin America and the Caribbean. Proposed case study: The Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area. La Plata: IADB
• Keare, Douglas H, and Scott Parris. 1981. Monitoring and Evaluation of Shelter Programs for the Urban Poor. DEDRB: Urban & Regional Report No. 81-13. (Article will be uploaded in January)
• Lloyd-Sherlock, Peter and Catherine Locke. "Vulnerable relations: lifecourse, wellbeing and social exclusion in Buenos Aires, Argentina." Ageing & Society (2007): 779-803
• Richardson, Neal. 2008. Farmers at the Barricades. Berkeley: Center for Latin American Studies.
• Sassen, Saskia. 2002. "Buenos Aires: Sociospatial Impacts of the Development of Global City Functions" (Chapter 11). Global Networks: Linked Cities. London: Routledge.  (Can be found on Google Books)
• Schelling, Vivian, ed. 2000. "The Modern City: Buenos Aires, the Peripheral Metropolis". Through the Kaleidoscope: the Experience of Modernity in Latin America. London: Verso.  (Can be found on Google Books)
  

WEBSITE SOURCES:

• About Argentina: www.argentina.gov.ar
• Agua y Saneamientos Argentinos S.A. (AySA): http://www.aysa.com.ar/index.php?id_contenido=435
• Atlas Ambiental Buenos Aires - interactive mapping of various urban, social and economic indicators: http://www.atlasdebuenosaires.gov.ar/
• Asociación Vecinos de Boca: http://www.avelaboca.org.ar/sitio/index.php?s=oculta&c=Saneamiento-del-Riachuelo
  • Specifically: http://www.avelaboca.org.ar/sitio/index.php?s=oculta&c=Saneamiento-del-Riachuelo
• Autoridad de Cuenca Matanza-Riachuelo: http://www.acumar.gov.ar/
• Fundación por La Boca: http://www.fundacionxlaboca.org.ar/index2.htm
• Grupo de Ecología del Paisaje y Medio Ambiente de la Universidad de Buenos Aires: http://www.gepama.com.ar/index.php
• Inter-American Development Bank, Argentina: http://www.iadb.org/countries/home.cfm?id_country=ar&language=Spanish
• La Nación, Bueons Aires: http://www.lanacion.com.ar/
• Ministry of the Interior: statistics on Avellaneda: http://www.mininterior.gov.ar/municipales/busqueda/amplia_info.asp?ID=BUE005
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs: www.mrecic.gov.ar
• Ministry of Economy: www.mecon.gov.ar
• Ministry of Education: www.mcye.gov.ar
• Presidency of the Nation: www.presidencia.gov.ar
• Senate: www.senado.gov.ar
• The World Bank: Matanza-Riachuelo Project: http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?Projectid=P105680&theSitePK=40941&piPK=64290415&pagePK=64283627&menuPK=64282134&Type=Overview
• Tourism: www.sectur.gov.ar

VIDEO SOURCES:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgp5QfikdJQ