The historical spiral of conflict around the petrochemical pole of Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Contributions to an environmental history of the neoliberal city
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https://doi.org/10.12957/rdc.2025.91169Keywords:
urban environmental history, territorial conflicts, judicialization, social productivity, neoliberalismAbstract
This paper analyzes the historical spiral of the urban environmental conflict produced around the petrochemical pole of Bahía Blanca during its transformation process under neoliberal restructuring policies. Based on a qualitative methodological strategy, primary and secondary sources are used simultaneously. The information gathered is organized by means of a narrative-historical scheme that does not close at the moment of greatest conflict, but expands until it generates a space that makes it possible to read its social productivity in the short and medium term. In the historical spiral we find that, although the impacts caused by the petrochemical companies were progressively recognized as a problem, they erupted as a conflict from the toxic leaks that occurred during the great mutation of the industrial pole. Subsequently, just as the judicialization of the dispute became an experience of waiting and submission, the productivity of the conflict involved the re-constitution of a dominant urban order that consolidated the south of the city as a sacrifice zone. Thus, the study constitutes a contribution towards an urban environmental history that foregrounds the dynamics of conflict that is inherent to the production of the neoliberal city.
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