Participative practices in the neighbourhood space: Its operativity under peronism

Abstract

The diverse historiographical studies about Peronism have revealed certain richness of local-scale shades. Regarding to this, the objective of this article is to analyze the participative practices –both in its associative and political modalities- that took place in the neighborhoods of the city of Río Cuarto, Córdoba, taking into account both neighborhood associations and partisan Basic Units. It will be shown that the mediation of the neighbor demands became a disputed field between social-based foment and the Basic Units, just like is reported in other peripheral urbanizations. But in spite of this, in this city, neighbors kept developing associative practices both from inside and from outside of pre-existing foment entities; Peronism did notocclude the associative life but sought to control and regulate it. And even though it “peronized” some foment commissions, it did not the same with neighbor associations. These, instead, experienced a renovation process during the two final years of Peronism.