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London Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series, Spring Term 2017
Thursday 16th of February - Juan Manuel del Nido, University of Manchester.
Taxistas in Buenos Aires: The Contours of the Trade
This presentation is in essence ethnographic. I outline here a series of organising elements of the Buenos Aires taxi driving industry as they appeared to me during my fieldwork. Firstly, because of the unrepeatable, asymmetric and elusive character of taxi riding as an urban transaction, taxis are defined as a public service in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. This situates a number of fundamental aspects of the trade – fare, mechanisms of control, verification and scale of the industry – under the aegis of the city state. Secondly, I will look at how the fundamental relations of property (owns or does not own a car) and labour (drives for himself or drives for someone else) organise not only the political aspects of the trade, but also the economic, social, associative and recreational possibilities of taxiing in Buenos Aires today.
The seminar will take place at 17:30 at Senate House (Room 234, South Block, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU).
This seminar series is jointly run by the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Anthropology departments of LSE, Goldsmiths and UCL.
For more information about the seminar, you can visit our blog:http://anthropologyseminarilas.blogs.sas.ac.uk<http://anthropologyseminarilas.blogs.sas.ac.uk/>
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