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Accepted Paper:
Is survival to informality the only available option? Limits and possibilities of state and social movement action in an informal neighbourhood in Argentina
Maurizio Atzeni
(CEILConicet)
Paper short abstract:
In this paper, by drawing on recent fieldwork research in Pueblo Unido, a popular neighbourhood that grew on an occupied land in the greater Buenos Aires area, we plan to put in evidence and describe the organizational mechanisms through which the neighbourhood has been able to survive informality
Paper long abstract:
Informality is a relatively new social dimension for Argentina, strictly connected with the descent of the country into debt dependent neoliberalism from the mid 1970s. In the course of the last fifty years labour and economic informality have consolidated, de facto producing the existence of an underclass of workers and citizens living on the poverty line. However, an history of working class mobilizations and the presence of a strong trade unions movement connected with Peronism have made the struggle against informality and precariousness a contested terrain in which state and social movement actors play an active though often contradictory role. In this paper, by drawing on recent fieldwork research in Pueblo Unido, a popular neighbourhood that grew on an occupied land in the greater Buenos Aires area, we plan to put in evidence and describe the organizational mechanisms through which the neighbourhood has been able to survive informality at a time of extreme economic and social stress. The focus on these organizational mechanisms will help to give insights into the contradictory relations existing between state policy and state involvement in redressing labour and economic informality and the political horizons of social movements action.
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Accepted Paper:
Paper short abstract:
Paper long abstract:
Informality is a relatively new social dimension for Argentina, strictly connected with the descent of the country into debt dependent neoliberalism from the mid 1970s. In the course of the last fifty years labour and economic informality have consolidated, de facto producing the existence of an underclass of workers and citizens living on the poverty line. However, an history of working class mobilizations and the presence of a strong trade unions movement connected with Peronism have made the struggle against informality and precariousness a contested terrain in which state and social movement actors play an active though often contradictory role. In this paper, by drawing on recent fieldwork research in Pueblo Unido, a popular neighbourhood that grew on an occupied land in the greater Buenos Aires area, we plan to put in evidence and describe the organizational mechanisms through which the neighbourhood has been able to survive informality at a time of extreme economic and social stress. The focus on these organizational mechanisms will help to give insights into the contradictory relations existing between state policy and state involvement in redressing labour and economic informality and the political horizons of social movements action.
Informality: a way of surviving the post-pandemic city?
Session 1 Thursday 7 July, 2022, -