Backbone.js - views within views and managing events?

I second dogenpunk. I would have one User Collection / View. Because the whole hierarchy you describe above is about that one User Collection.

All functions of it manipulate that collection and then you rerender the User View.

I try to reflect my server-side MVC structure as much as I can.

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