Pobreza urbana, comunidad local y Estado-socio en Argentina: la provisión de servicios públicos en un asentamiento de la Región Metropolitana de Buenos Aires

BESANA PATRICIO; GRINBERG, SILVIA; GUTIERREZ, RICARDO

Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales

UNAM

Lugar: Mexico; Año: 2015 vol. LX p. 79 - 102

0185-1918

Based upon the study of a Metropolitan Buenos Aires shantytown, this article shows that the access to urban services in a periphery neighborhood depends a great deal on community organization and local leadership, which are, we contend, two-faced mechanisms. On the one hand, they express the community efforts to self-manage the satisfaction of basic needs when both private and state companies fail to provide them. On the other, they are the channels through which what we call the ?partner state? secures the regulation of population without getting directly involved in the provision of public services.