Abstract

MANTINAN, Luciano Martín. VIOLENCE TOWARDS LIFE. GOVERNMENTALITy AND URBAN POVERTY. Cuad. urbano [online]. 2020, vol.28, n.28, pp.59-78. ISSN 1853-3655.  http://dx.doi.org/10.30972/crn.28284324.

The article presents result of an ethnographic research about some of the particularities that life policies present in those neighborhoods commonly known as "slums". This is a research work carried out between 2014 and 2017 in the metropolitan region of Buenos Aires, more specifically in José León Suárez. It focuses on the analysis of situations and events that express a modulation of life in the villages, which we propose to call violence towards life in contexts of extreme urban poverty and environmental degradation. We analyze the tensions that these situations acquire, understanding that they constitute a key part of the government’s fabric and the logics of power as they are daily assembled basis in these metropolitan neighborhoods, power dynamics that go beyond these urban spaces and are part of the ways that policies on life assume on contemporary metropolises.

Keywords : Violence; poverty; environmental degradation; governmentality.