Abstract

LAITANO, Guillermina. Niños que luchan. Photography as historical source to study subordínate classes’s struggle. Trab. soc. [online]. 2019, n.32, pp.527-542. ISSN 1514-6871.

This text presents an analysis of the Niños que luchan photographic exhibition. It refers to a conflict for decent affordable housing leaded by the Asamblea Sin Techo in Mar del Plata city between 2008 and 2009. The analysis pursues, as a first objective, to rebuild the exhibition’s production context, namely, submit his author, and to analyze the forms and meanings from which it was built. Secondly, exhibition’s analysis in itself is presented, with the objective to give an account to ordinariness in the subordinate classes’s social struggle process. Also, in the context of both objectives we describe the photography's utilization potentialities as social and historical inquiry’s source are presented, as well as certain methodological precautions necessary to take into account when working with photographs analytically.

Keywords : recent history; social conflict; historical source; photography; documentalism.

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