Social conflict in urban space. : organizational experiences of the people in “villas” in the city of Buenos Aires between 1958 and 1976.

Abstract

The present article intends to focus on the extend and the limits of the organizational experiences among de people living in “villas” in the city of Buenos Aires between the years of 1958 y 1976. We enhance the popular experience as a specific field to be studied rather than a field subordinated to others study objects such as the New Left, the military-armed-political organizations, the 60´s and 70´s revolutionary culture, the Left Peronism during the 70’s, etc. We sustain that people living in “villas” in the city of Buenos Aires embraced ways of organization that emerged from the combination of two factors: people´s knowledge as working class nourished by the Peronist and the left political organizations between the 60´s and 70´s.