Autor/es
Descripción
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Colaborador
Rosato, Ana
Materias
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
1997-2012
Idioma
spa
Extent
320 p.
Derechos
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Formato
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Identificador
Cobertura
1001160
Buenos Aires (province)
1997-2012
Abstract
This thesis analyzes processes of social recognition involved in the relationship between the formulation and implementation of social policies, and the representations and practices of those persons to whom these policies are directed. We focus our investigation on the Govermment of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires’s housing policies destined to handle the housing emergency, especially on those aimed at people in street situation, during the period 1997-2012.
The focus was twofold: on the policy-makers side, we studied how the beneficiaries population was created, how the category from which the focalization of social policy becomes effective; on the potential beneficiaries side, we paid close attention to the disputes the they were involved in to be included in the policies, for which they had to be defined and classified in accordance to a state nomination. Their representations and practices were central to our analysis, included their uses of and the effect that the category people in street situation had on them.
To take as the object of study the redistributive policies' classificatory processes, supposed to analyze how the State makes a partial selection of reality, which not only imposes certain requirements to access the resources it manages but defines target identities while excluding others. To achieve inclusion in the assistance program, persons must demonstrate that they are part of the State's selection, even if the definition of the target identity is not assumed or interpreted as a representative class of themselves.
The axis of the analysis was centered on policies and beneficiaries, particularly in their crossing, to account for the relationship that binds them with classificatory processes and recognition effects inherent to redistributive policies (Fraser, 2000), observed in the housing policies directed to the care of street situation in the city of Buenos Aires.
Thus, our research question was to analyze the classifying processes (Douglas, 1996) of housing policies for people in street situation in the CBA, e.g., in the creation of a target population and its links to the recognition effects (Fraser, 2000). These recognition effects led us to extend the analysis to the way people perceive, assume or resist such classification. People's active implication showed their knowledge of what government agents say and think and what they pretend them to do and be, and thus these potential beneficiaries responded with correspondingly positions and actions that in turn affected the category and the classifying process. Considering this feedback between classifications and people hit by them, the thesis analyzes the process of creating a new population, a new class of people: people in street situation.
The focus was twofold: on the policy-makers side, we studied how the beneficiaries population was created, how the category from which the focalization of social policy becomes effective; on the potential beneficiaries side, we paid close attention to the disputes the they were involved in to be included in the policies, for which they had to be defined and classified in accordance to a state nomination. Their representations and practices were central to our analysis, included their uses of and the effect that the category people in street situation had on them.
To take as the object of study the redistributive policies' classificatory processes, supposed to analyze how the State makes a partial selection of reality, which not only imposes certain requirements to access the resources it manages but defines target identities while excluding others. To achieve inclusion in the assistance program, persons must demonstrate that they are part of the State's selection, even if the definition of the target identity is not assumed or interpreted as a representative class of themselves.
The axis of the analysis was centered on policies and beneficiaries, particularly in their crossing, to account for the relationship that binds them with classificatory processes and recognition effects inherent to redistributive policies (Fraser, 2000), observed in the housing policies directed to the care of street situation in the city of Buenos Aires.
Thus, our research question was to analyze the classifying processes (Douglas, 1996) of housing policies for people in street situation in the CBA, e.g., in the creation of a target population and its links to the recognition effects (Fraser, 2000). These recognition effects led us to extend the analysis to the way people perceive, assume or resist such classification. People's active implication showed their knowledge of what government agents say and think and what they pretend them to do and be, and thus these potential beneficiaries responded with correspondingly positions and actions that in turn affected the category and the classifying process. Considering this feedback between classifications and people hit by them, the thesis analyzes the process of creating a new population, a new class of people: people in street situation.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales