Mujeres migrantes y desigualdades socioterritoriales en barrios populares de San Carlos de Bariloche: tensiones y discursos contrapuestos

CECILIA MELELLA Y BRENDA MATOSSIAN

Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives

Universitá degli studi di Firenze

Lugar: Firenze; Año: 2016 p. 49 - 62

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San Carlos de Bariloche city, in argentinian Patagonia, experienced a demographicand urban growth in which international and internal migration had a significantrole. These migrants have built ?new? neighborhoods through which the cityhas expanded, following a dispersed city model. This fast growth deepened a patternof polarized and strong socioterritorial inequalities, which is distinctive of cities withneoliberal models development. In this context, the last fifteen years, popular sectorshave experienced new partnership strategies developed largely by women with strongneighborhood leadership, many of them are also migrants. These new strategies wereconcreted through the most legitimate neighborhood institutions in the middle citiesof argentinian Patagonia: Neighborhood Councils. In this paper, we study, on the onehand, the resistance processes at a neighborhood scale, headed by women, through aparticular event that has been the controversial installation of a Walmart`s supermarket(called Changomas) which led to the implementation of a referendum. Moreover,we will analize the tensions and conflicting speeches - through in-depth interviews andmain local newspapers analysis- that have contributed the formation of a hegemonicimaginary based on binary representations of the city: one designed for tourism (?theSwiss Argentina?) and the other for the popular sectors in the periphery (?El Alto?).