Abstract

SNITCOFSKY, Valeria. Territorial organization and historical continuity: contributions to an understanding of the national congresses of the Peronist Slum Dwellers Movement (1973-1974). Trab. soc. [online]. 2014, n.22, pp.377-393. ISSN 1514-6871.

A number of new perspectives formulated during the last two decades link the increase in the precarity of working conditions with the rise of territorial organizations. These approaches also propose that the emergence of the territory as a key for demands regarding better living conditions can be seen as a new element that characterize the change of century. This article, instead, emphasizes a number of continuities between the territorial organizations in the present, and those developed historically in Argentina. With this aim, it will analyze two national congresses organized by the Peronist Slum Dwellers Movement, in 1973 and 1974. These congresses were attended by delegates of numerous slums, just a few months before an intense illegal and selective repression was implemented in the country. This repression was first led by the so called Triple A, and right after the military coup of 24^th May 1976, it remained in charge of the Armed Forces. Even if the systematic and prolonged repression affected in a negative way the capacity of response in the analyzed territories, it did not definitively eliminate the existing tradition of organization and some of its main characteristics remained until the democratic recovery in 1983, resisting even the hyperinflation crisis, the convertibility crisis, and the 2001 crisis. This is why, in spite of the differences created by each particular context, a historical continuity can be identified, thus questioning the so called “irruption” of territory.

Keywords : Territory; Slums; History; Organization; Continuity.

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