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Land invasions and grassroots organization: the Quilmes settlements in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina

Diego Armus

Maria Di Loreto

Susana Pefialva

Centro de Estudios Urbanos y Regionales (CEUR) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Land Invasions and Grassroots Organization: the Quilmes Settlements in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentia focuses on the first organized mass invasion of private land in the recent history of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It describes the social, economic and political background to the invasion, the invasion itself and how the invaders organized to stop the government's attempts to halt it. The concluding sections describe changes in grassroots organizations in the context of the rapid political and social changes taking place between 1980 and 1984 in Argentina.

Environment and Urbanization, Vol. 2, No. 1, 61-73 (1990)
DOI: 10.1177/095624789000200108


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