Etnografía de la gestión colectiva de políticas estatales en organizaciones de desocupados de La Matanza -Gran Buenos Aires-

Abstract

In this article, I show some of the results of an anthropological fieldwork that
I carried out in La Matanza, Greater Buenos Aires Area, between April 2002 and March
2006. In that frame, I observed the everyday activities developed by neighbourhood
groups linked to unemployed people’s organizations. In that regard, this article aims
at analyzing the everyday practices that are entwined with the collective negotiation
of State-run programs. Particularly, this article reconstructs the activities of a group
of people belonging to one of organizations under study, who were in charge of the
administrative tasks required by the normative that framed the State-run
employment programs. The article contends that the complexity of that process of
technical specialization and knowledge appropriation turns the theoretical frontiers
between State and social movements extremely blurred.