The Neoliberalisation of the City – Between Continuity and Novelty in Producing Inequalities in Accessibility to Healthcare in Lima

Jérémy Robert (1)

1 EDYTEM - Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de Montagne

This article means to analyse the effects of the neoliberalisation of the healthcare system in Lima, in terms of socio-spatial inequalities. An examination of the construction of this system will contribute to set out the context in which neoliberal policies were applied in the 1990s. These policies led to an increase in socio-spatial inequalities, due to the fact that the State had foregone healthcare spatial planning in favour of an evolution based on financial opportunities, one-off projects and private sector development. Moreover, the recent evolution of the healthcare system contains new forms of inequalities which can be perceived as a qualitative rupture from forms of urban injustice. The proposed accessibility analysis insists on the political dimensions of this evolution and on its spatial materialisations, while taking a critical look at the modes of urban production.

Mots clés: socio-spatial inequalities; accessibility to hospitals; neoliberalisation; urban production; Lima; spatial justice

Domaines: Géographie; Architecture, aménagement de l'espace; Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences; Sciences de l'environnement

Jérémy Robert. The Neoliberalisation of the City – Between Continuity and Novelty in Producing Inequalities in Accessibility to Healthcare in Lima. Justice spatiale = Spatial justice, 2014, City, neoliberalisation and justice, 6, http://www.jssj.org/article/de-la-neoliberalisation-de-la-ville-entre-continuite-et-nouveaute-dans-la-production-des-inegalites-daccessibilite-aux-soins-a-lima/. ⟨halshs-01512543⟩