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 thatI carried out in La Matanza, Greater Buenos Aires Area, between April 2002 and March2006. In that frame, I observed the everyday activities developed by neighbourhoodgroups linked to unemployed people’s organizations. In that regard, this article aimsat analyzing the everyday practices that are entwined with the collective negotiationof State-run programs. Particularly, this article reconstructs the activities of a groupof people belonging to one of organizations under study, who were in charge of theadministrative tasks required by the normative that framed the State-runemployment programs. The article contends that the complexity of that process oftechnical specialization and knowledge appropriation turns the theoretical frontiersbetween State and social movements extremely blurred.