Abstract
This article investigates how the 1886-1887 cholera epidemic in Rosario, Argentina led to discrimination among city spaces associated with foci, the production of certain socio-moral images about the sectors most affected, and the development of emergency clinical practices. Based on analysis of the signifiers used to define areas of segregation, I seek to show how working-class living conditions were one of the most pressing problems of urban expansion, to identify tensions between the application of hygiene measures and the evacuation or eviction of working-class sectors and to examine the role of displacement in the definition of suburban spaces.
Highlights
Postdoctoral fellow, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; researcher, Centro de Estudios Culturales Urbanos; professor, Facultad de Humanidades y Artes/Universidad Nacional de Rosario
This article investigates how the 18861887 cholera epidemic in Rosario, Argentina led to discrimination among city spaces associated with foci, the production of certain socio-moral images about the sectors most affected, and the development of emergency clinical practices
Locating the epidemic event is fundamental in order to disassemble and reassemble the planes on which cholera unfolds as a kind of general phenomenon with particular expressions
Summary
Postdoctoral fellow, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; researcher, Centro de Estudios Culturales Urbanos; professor, Facultad de Humanidades y Artes/Universidad Nacional de Rosario. The cholera epidemic as condenser of meanings: urban cultures, clinical narratives, and hygiene policies in Rosario, Argentina, 1886-1887.
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