Autor/es
Descripción
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Colaborador
Feierstein, Daniel
Materias
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
1973-1976
Idioma
spa
Extent
300 p.
Derechos
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Formato
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Identificador
Cobertura
7593303
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (autonomus city)
1973-1976
Abstract
The thesis explores the political organizations developed in the urban spaces named shanty town in the Capital Federal of Argentina, between 1930, moment of creation of this peculiar way to access and residence in the city, and 1976, year of the last military dictatorship in the country, where the repression and the shanty towns’ political elimination prevented the functioning of the political organizations in the shanty towns.
The specific questions of the investigation aim at finding the causes that brought the population to the formation of territorial organization; detecting the characteristics that this organization adopted along the period analyzed; and discovering the demand, recognition and type of action employed in each moment.
The general objective endeavours to understand and characterize the collective organization of the shanty town population, making emphasis in the study of a particular experience as the Movimiento Villero Peronista (1973- 1976), to be able to detect and systematize the distinctive political practices in the shanty towns of the Capital Federal during the strong seventies.
Capital Federal was selected as a place to investigate because it was the city with most presence of shanty towns at the MVP´s moment of action, and the field work was made in the 31 Shanty Town placed in Retiro. Since there are no investigations that analyse the MVP specifically, it was necessary to use primary sources of information, such as historical documents, and in-depth interviews.
The organizations of the shanty towns were made up by the installation of the neighbourhoods as a necessary instance to stay, resisting evacuations and systematic attacks to pester the population and achieve their exodus from the lands taken, and to the demand of basic urban services. The development of the organizations experienced a constant growth until 1976; while consolidating organizational structures, creating bonds between different neighbourhoods with the objective of joining their demands before the State, enriching the political relations, working with different political parties, social organizations, religious organizations, etc. The experience gathered by the end of the sixties and early seventies allowed them to get to an unprecedented political organization of the shanty towns’ power, and to adopt an attitude with an importance never before experienced in the social structure. The disposition to the participation in collective organizations with the goal of fighting for their rights before de State and, on top of that, with the aspiration to changing something of that reality in structural terms was led by the MVP, hegemonic political organization between 1973 and 1976 which reached a high level of adherence, participation and action.
The investigation´s approach takes as theoretical reference the political sociology of the popular class, developed by Denis Merklen, the view of the relationship of political power of Antonio Gramsci and the genocide studies, centered around Daniel Feierstein´s work.
Major relevant discoveries are: to contribute with information about an experience not much analyzed in recent history, which was the MVP, discussing with works that tend to underestimate the political experience of the shanty town’s population at the moment of the political military organizations’ emergence in the country; to find a explanatory principle on the political practices at the shanty towns previous to the last military dictatorship, discussing works that connect the shanty town population´s political activity exclusively to the idea of “clientelismo político” and with works that follow the beginnings of territorial politics at the nineties with the labor market’s deterioration.
The specific questions of the investigation aim at finding the causes that brought the population to the formation of territorial organization; detecting the characteristics that this organization adopted along the period analyzed; and discovering the demand, recognition and type of action employed in each moment.
The general objective endeavours to understand and characterize the collective organization of the shanty town population, making emphasis in the study of a particular experience as the Movimiento Villero Peronista (1973- 1976), to be able to detect and systematize the distinctive political practices in the shanty towns of the Capital Federal during the strong seventies.
Capital Federal was selected as a place to investigate because it was the city with most presence of shanty towns at the MVP´s moment of action, and the field work was made in the 31 Shanty Town placed in Retiro. Since there are no investigations that analyse the MVP specifically, it was necessary to use primary sources of information, such as historical documents, and in-depth interviews.
The organizations of the shanty towns were made up by the installation of the neighbourhoods as a necessary instance to stay, resisting evacuations and systematic attacks to pester the population and achieve their exodus from the lands taken, and to the demand of basic urban services. The development of the organizations experienced a constant growth until 1976; while consolidating organizational structures, creating bonds between different neighbourhoods with the objective of joining their demands before the State, enriching the political relations, working with different political parties, social organizations, religious organizations, etc. The experience gathered by the end of the sixties and early seventies allowed them to get to an unprecedented political organization of the shanty towns’ power, and to adopt an attitude with an importance never before experienced in the social structure. The disposition to the participation in collective organizations with the goal of fighting for their rights before de State and, on top of that, with the aspiration to changing something of that reality in structural terms was led by the MVP, hegemonic political organization between 1973 and 1976 which reached a high level of adherence, participation and action.
The investigation´s approach takes as theoretical reference the political sociology of the popular class, developed by Denis Merklen, the view of the relationship of political power of Antonio Gramsci and the genocide studies, centered around Daniel Feierstein´s work.
Major relevant discoveries are: to contribute with information about an experience not much analyzed in recent history, which was the MVP, discussing with works that tend to underestimate the political experience of the shanty town’s population at the moment of the political military organizations’ emergence in the country; to find a explanatory principle on the political practices at the shanty towns previous to the last military dictatorship, discussing works that connect the shanty town population´s political activity exclusively to the idea of “clientelismo político” and with works that follow the beginnings of territorial politics at the nineties with the labor market’s deterioration.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales