Thinking about the conflict´s media overflows: The neighborhood-cities as a sympton of urban tendency of social-segregation

BOITO, EUGENIA; MARÍA BELÉN ESPOZ; SORRIBAS, PATRICIA MARIEL

Gothenburg,

Congreso; XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology; 2010

International Sociological Association

This work aims to describe, from the media discourse production, the map of social unrest that arose in the implementation of a policy of social housing in the city of Córdoba, Argentina as it was the program “Mi casa, mi Vida” (My House, My Life) (2004) for “vulnerable” families. In this instance was rebuilt a corpus consisting of news corresponding with two periods of application of that housing policy, 2004/2005 (transfers to the new neighborhood-cities & launching of the program for the rest of society) & 2007/2008 (latest applications of the program), based on local printing press. This description & the identification of certain scenes of the conflict in both periods, allow us to set a framework for understanding the current urban trends in Latin America that clearly respond to a “strategic town planning”–in the Benjaminian sense which distinguish body-class. Separation that is also executed by public/media discourse through operations that respond to a “political economy of morals” about poverty and that throughout the intervention of diverse social agents–constituted themselves as “legitimized voices”–who appropriate the enunciation of the conflict, outlining the edges and overflows of social unrest inscribed in the social housing policy stated.