This PhD project aims to study how beauty is shaped in the city of Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina: a place marked by a strong colonial and migrational history. 

Firstly, by mapping what it means to be beautiful there.  Looking at evaluations of beauty and their implications regarding social inequalities through in-depth Q-sorting interviews.

Secondly, it centres on the political field to examine beauty in action. From modelling the political look, to looks in the campaigning trail, it aims for a situated answer to how beauty and inequality are related, and what are the mechanisms in place at a macro, meso and micro level to (re)produce ongoing and new boundaries in social sorting, classification and exclusion.