Abstract

GRIMBERG, Mabel et al. Identificaciones y disputas de sentido en Asambleas Barriales: Análisis de la construcción política de la categoría vecino. Intersecciones antropol. [online]. 2004, n.5, pp.167-175. ISSN 1850-373X.

In this article we summarize some of the preliminary results of a study on asambleas barriales (neighborhood assemblies), included in a larger research project concerning the process of formation of social actors and the new modalities of political action. This specific line of research is intended to bind together anthropology and politics, since we ourselves are actively involved in these collective practices. Our focus is on the modalities of organization, the functional arrangements, the debates and activities of several "assemblies", examined from within a theoretical framework based on the concepts of social construction and hegemony. We apply participant-observation and the systematic recording of oral and written discourses and individual and collective practices in order to reveal on analysis the multiplicity of meanings and tensions that arise from these practices. In this way, we focus on the transformations of the vecino (neighbor) category, proposing a tentative chronology in order to apply a dynamic perspective to the analysis of this multiplicity of meanings and practices.

Keywords : Political action; Assemblies; Social construction; Hegemony; Identifications.

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