This document analyzes some specific policies implemented in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (... more This document analyzes some specific policies implemented in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) in the aftermath of the crisis. Departing from a theoretical framework that defines the concept of social production of habitat, it reflects on the current conditions of political and territorial insertion of popular sectors in the area, their degrees of organization and the results that the interaction between social organizations and government agencies produce on policy-making. Partiendo de una elaboración teórico conceptual acerca de la producción social del hábitat y del análisis de algunas políticas sectoriales implementadas en la post crisis en el AMBA, el documento analiza y reflexiona sobre las condiciones de inserción socio política y territorial de los sectores populares en áreas centrales y periféricas del AMBA, sobre sus niveles de organización, el papel jugado por el Estado y los significados que asume su interacción en el plano de las políticas.
In this paper I explore the attempt to organize in order to secure permanent housing among poor u... more In this paper I explore the attempt to organize in order to secure permanent housing among poor urban families in Buenos Aires who reside temporarily in government-subsidized welfare hotels. My aim is to examine the passage that appears to take place between the ever-present tropes of " need " (and being assisted) and of " patience " (and being an activist in an autonomous and project-oriented movement) in the families' experience of time as they embark collectively in this endeavor. I argue that as activists strive to move away from the subject position of asistido into which social programs seem to place them, they assume a political engagement that requires " patience, " a kind of work necessary for overriding the feeling of urgency often connected with a condition of need.
This document analyzes some specific policies implemented in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (... more This document analyzes some specific policies implemented in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) in the aftermath of the crisis. Departing from a theoretical framework that defines the concept of social production of habitat, it reflects on the current conditions of political and territorial insertion of popular sectors in the area, their degrees of organization and the results that the interaction between social organizations and government agencies produce on policy-making. Partiendo de una elaboración teórico conceptual acerca de la producción social del hábitat y del análisis de algunas políticas sectoriales implementadas en la post crisis en el AMBA, el documento analiza y reflexiona sobre las condiciones de inserción socio política y territorial de los sectores populares en áreas centrales y periféricas del AMBA, sobre sus niveles de organización, el papel jugado por el Estado y los significados que asume su interacción en el plano de las políticas.
In this paper I explore the attempt to organize in order to secure permanent housing among poor u... more In this paper I explore the attempt to organize in order to secure permanent housing among poor urban families in Buenos Aires who reside temporarily in government-subsidized welfare hotels. My aim is to examine the passage that appears to take place between the ever-present tropes of " need " (and being assisted) and of " patience " (and being an activist in an autonomous and project-oriented movement) in the families' experience of time as they embark collectively in this endeavor. I argue that as activists strive to move away from the subject position of asistido into which social programs seem to place them, they assume a political engagement that requires " patience, " a kind of work necessary for overriding the feeling of urgency often connected with a condition of need.
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