Monica Lacarrieu
El dilema de lo local y la producción social de la feudalización
The dilemma of what is called local and the social production of "feudalization".

The purpose of this article is to ponder up on the stress between globalization and local cultures which nowadays occur in t h e big cities. From the latter and considering field experiences in the cities of Buenos Aires and Mexico, the main interest is to observe the dilemma of what is called local in relation to "the renaissance of neighbourhoods communities" —which is turning out to be more frequent and has been linked by some specialists apparently to " urban feudalization processes"— and to "the renaissance of historical communities", self-legitimated in the usage of a tradition that is generally invented.