Autor/es
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Colaborador
Otamendi, María Alejandra
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
2015-2018
Idioma
spa
Extent
146 p.
Derechos
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Cobertura
1001160
Buenos Aires (province)
2015-2018
Abstract
In recent years, concern about (in)security has increased progressively since 1990, with the middle and upper class sectors being its main advocates, especially since the popular "Blumberg" case. This case helped to establish (in) security and its management as one of the main public problems of our society. In this context, we believe that the daily management of (in)security by non-experts actors is part of a general sociohistorical process of the withdrawal of welfare policies and their replacement with individuation policies that assign progressively greater responsibility to the subjects on their protection. Within the framework of the perspective of social psychologist and the left realism the aim of this study focus on the personal and collective strategies of (in)security management of the residents of a working-class city in the Province of Buenos Aires during 2015-2018. These strategies were defined as social behavioral reactions that involve emotions, representations, definitions and demands toward insecurity. We refer to non-expert diagnoses that involve concrete effects toward the daily life of local actors. Likewise, we consider the attributes of gender and life cycle as contributors to the particular forms of the (in)security management. In addition to this, we explore the potential productive or degenerative effects of these individual and collective strategies towards the social bond. In order to prove this, we conducted semi structured interviews with neighbourhood locals, and complement it with participatory observation and document analysis (maps, pictures and local statics).
In general terms, the analysis identified that the different forms of signifying the (in)security was found in various points of convergence around the diagnosis of its causes, such as the cartography, the anthropoforming of fears, and the demands to public institutions responsible for providing security. As a result of these diagnoses, the individual strategies that were used suggested not only the behavioral restrictions- in terms of protection- and avoidance but also strategies of "seduction". Furthermore, the collective strategies involved the coordination with others of the inner circle and the coordination and organization of neighbors considering from different forms of communication and alert, a citizen alarm device, to a neighborhood meeting with the local police officer. The analysis made also identify strategies which are mostly deployed by men, others by women, others by young women and men. Finally, we found that some of the strategies reactivate the social bond on a community level; others do so within the group itself (inner circle, neighborhood community) to the detriment of "others" and finally those that are only degenerative. In this way, the following research aims to provide inputs from the territorial experiences of working class, with special focus on gender and life cycle, for the construction of public policies linked to the management of (in) security, which contemplate the specific demands and resources of the different actors.
In general terms, the analysis identified that the different forms of signifying the (in)security was found in various points of convergence around the diagnosis of its causes, such as the cartography, the anthropoforming of fears, and the demands to public institutions responsible for providing security. As a result of these diagnoses, the individual strategies that were used suggested not only the behavioral restrictions- in terms of protection- and avoidance but also strategies of "seduction". Furthermore, the collective strategies involved the coordination with others of the inner circle and the coordination and organization of neighbors considering from different forms of communication and alert, a citizen alarm device, to a neighborhood meeting with the local police officer. The analysis made also identify strategies which are mostly deployed by men, others by women, others by young women and men. Finally, we found that some of the strategies reactivate the social bond on a community level; others do so within the group itself (inner circle, neighborhood community) to the detriment of "others" and finally those that are only degenerative. In this way, the following research aims to provide inputs from the territorial experiences of working class, with special focus on gender and life cycle, for the construction of public policies linked to the management of (in) security, which contemplate the specific demands and resources of the different actors.
Título obtenido
Magister de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Investigación en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales