The cholera epidemic as condenser of meanings: urban cultures, clinical narratives, and hygiene policies in Rosario, Argentina, 1886-1887 Articles uri icon

publication date

  • April 2017

start page

  • 295

end page

  • 311

volume

  • 24

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0104-5970

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1678-4758

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.

keywords

  • city; rosario; cholera; hygiene; spatiality