Building Legitimacy: Waits and Moral Arguments in the Occupation of the Indoamericano Park in Buenos Aires
Keywords:
land occupation, legitimacy, Buenos Aires, urban poverty, waitingAbstract
The article examines the ways in which a group of people that occupied the Indoamericano Park in Buenos Aires, Argentina, built the process as a legitimate way of access to housing. The text investigates the senses that practices acquire and the ways in which people justify them. It is argued that the construction of the occupation as legitimate is not based only on “previous” motives. In the months that followed the occupation a series of discourses and practices were (re)built, emerging as moral arguments that justified legitimacy and which eventually shaped the occupation as an accepted mode of access to land.
Este artículo realiza una aproximación a los modos en que un grupo de personas que tomaron el Parque Indoamericano de Buenos Aires construyeron el proceso como un modo legítimo a la posibilidad de acceder a una vivienda. Se indaga en los sentidos que adquieren las prácticas y las maneras en que las personas las justifican. Se argumenta que la construcción de la toma como legítima no sólo está basada en las motivaciones “previas”. En los meses posteriores a la ocupación una serie de discursos y prácticas se fueron (re)construyendo y emergiendo como argumentos morales que justificaban la legitimidad y que terminaron por configurar a la toma como un modo aceptado de acceso al suelo.
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