Volcano: Between Structural Vulnerabilities and Collective Defence of Honor in Communities Surrounding an Open Dumpsite

LUXARDO, N., SASSETTI, F., PASSERINO, L. M., WRIGHT, E., BILLORDO, J., KOLVENBACH, M., & BELLO, J. C

Qualitative Health Research

Sage

Año: 2022

2667-3215

This study analyzes the dynamics in which structural vulnerabilities are shaped and expressed in the day-to-day lives ofpeople making a living from a garbage dump in Argentina. It is a mixed methods case study, qualitative driven with acollaborative cycle (2016-2021). The study is embedded in medical anthropology, social epidemiology and Latin AmericaSocial Medicine, with the focus on the ways people respond to inequalities locally. The findings contribute to the field ofhealth disparities in three directions: 1) the description of patterns of segregation in South America peripheries, sheddinglight on cumulative disadvantages and multiple exposures; 2) the experience of living enmeshed in places with strongstigmas, revising the ways this source of discrimination become social suffering; and 3) the detection of the impact ofcollective action and social capital in providing material and symbolic resources for restoring dignity and honour thatchallenge depreciated status