Sociocultural construction of San Salvador de Jujuy, the symbolic border between Argentina and Bolivia

MELINA GAONA

Estudios Fronterizos

Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

Lugar: Tepic; Año: 2017 vol. 18 p. 54 - 77

2395-9134

The city of San Salvador de Jujuy is analyzed both as a border space and as a city space. Through the systematization of local studies, the aim is to consi-der the historical, political, socioeconomic, migratory and symbolic elements that create the urban border experience. This contribution focuses on re-constructing the city as a network of senses. It deepens our understanding of migratory flows, the recent political situation, the impact of economic in-equality on urbanisms, and the relevance of media and ritual acts in the con-figuration of dominant senses in cities. In addition, the factors that demarca-te the difference and local inequality and the process of peripheralization and impoverishment of the soil are examined. Both the recent political con-flicts that affect regional disarticulation and the symbolic disputes that cause tension in national belonging against a strong Andean influence are outlined.