Abstract
ABSTRACT Rather than a radical new way of entangling space and society fashioned by late capitalism and neoliberalism, gated communities are the latest iteration of a long chain of power mechanisms devised to reproduce racial hierarchies and to defend “proper citizens” against internal and external enemies. Based on ethnographic data produced in Nordelta, one of Latin America’s largest gated communities, this article concentrates on a twofold process through which Nordelteños produce their social and physical spaces: first, on the relationships they establish with their surroundings, negating its natural and cultural dimensions, and second, on the different technologies they have deployed to exclude, monitor and sanction the nearby “improper” population. In a country that has never ceased to define its legitimate citizenry upon their own category of “whiteness”, this analysis contributes to understand how Argentine gated communities entangle elites, racism and segregation to produce a space of exception.
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