“Agnese Codebò’s superb book, The Slum and the City, consists of a rigorous itinerary through the paradigmatic space of the villa miseria in Buenos Aires. In the convergence of cultural figurations, where the aesthetic and the social intersect, Codebò’s book finds the generative nature of urban spaces that to date had not been analyzed in their vast complexity.”
—Gisela Heffes, author of Visualizing Loss in Latin America: Biopolitics, Waste, and the Urban Environment
“By situating proletarian culture and grassroots politics at the center of her analysis, Codebò offers a paradigm-shifting account of the contemporary cultural history of Buenos Aires. Far from being marginal sites, slums are constitutive of the city’s—and the nation’s—history. They are key sites of knowledge production, political organizing, and artistic expression, as Codebò demonstrates in this fascinating and important book.”
—Jennifer S. Ponce de León, author of Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War