Abstract

GALAR, Santiago. Questionar a ordem. Umanálise dos reclamos públicos da família policial na provincia de Buenos Aires e a Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Trab. soc. [online]. 2018, n.31, pp.127-140. ISSN 1514-6871.

The objective of the work is to characterize the participants, the forms and contents involved in the claims produced in the public space by actors linked to police institutions, particularly the Federal Police with operations in the City of Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires Provincial Police. For these purposes, we carry out in-depth interviews with members of the so-called “police family” who usually raise complaints in the public space, we participated in protests called by these actors and we reconstructed public conflicts through the completion of an exhaustive graphic press registry. In the exercise of claiming in the public space tensions arising from a double belonging of the actors are visible, as members of a democratic society that grants rights to its citizens and as members of a hierarchical institution that has inequalities. Including demands for rights according to the process of democratization experienced by society as a whole, the claim constitutes for the actors a moment of questioning the limits imposed by the institution, although it does not necessarily express a demand for “demilitarizing” the police.

Keywords : collective action; police; public space; protest; activism.

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