On Capybaras, Infrastructures, and Wetlands: Controversial human/non-human intertwinements in Nordelta (Argentina)
This article analyses the tensions, competitions and uses of space between capybaras and neighbours in Nordelta, Argentina's most emblematic gated community. We explore how water infrastructure works and techniques allowed the expansion of gated developments over Tigre's wetlands, transfor...
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Facultad de Arquitectura, Planeamiento y Diseño | Universidad Nacional de Rosario
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ayp.fapyd.unr.edu.ar/index.php/ayp/article/view/507 |
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| Sumario: | This article analyses the tensions, competitions and uses of space between capybaras and neighbours in Nordelta, Argentina's most emblematic gated community. We explore how water infrastructure works and techniques allowed the expansion of gated developments over Tigre's wetlands, transforming the ways of inhabiting that ecosystem and turning it into a scenographic landscape for a real estate product. Paradoxically, it also created the enabling conditions for the proliferation of species such as the capybara. In the face of its uncontrolled growth, we describe the measures used to control the population and ask ourselves about which lives are prioritised in the production processes of gated communities and how those that are not tolerated are controlled. Finally, we reflect on the possibilities of coexistence between humans and non-humans in environments transformed by capitalist urbanisation. |
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