Local government and institutional and urban transformation into security: Rosario, Argentina (1995-2016)

Abstract

This research focuses on reconstructing the way (in)security was installed as problematic in the municipality of Rosario, Argentina. Targets revolve around tracking the key location of local government in the city's strategic positioning on the national and international map and to find out how local government has been urbanly and institutionally assuming security production through a series of crime prevention initiatives. It is noted that the local is revalued as a scale to govern by responding to a reconfiguration of the exercise of power where he places him as a great translator of international organizations' guidelines on urban policies for crime prevention. Cities are beginning to become a territory conducive, in terms of scale, to put into operation various experiences that make up them in institutional laboratorios.