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NUNEZ, Ana. Opening up urban policy and social identities: Neither entrepreneurs, nor bureaucrats, or neighbours: deep statality and extense statality. Econ. soc. territ [online]. 2009, vol.9, n.30, pp.297-347. ISSN 2448-6183.

The analysis presented in this article has its origins on the question of what social relationships get hidden, constructed and destroyed in the struggle for the material and social conditions of existence. This triggers the usage of traditional categories of urban policy that have been thought of as objects (as state, enterprises, neighbours) interrelating the construction of several social spaces that we call deep statality and extense statality. We consult primary and secondary information sources which refer to struggles for and with water and the sanitation of Mar del Plata, Argentina.

Palavras-chave : urban genesis; social struggle; deep statality; extense statality; urban policy.