Abstract

PIZARRO, Matías Rafael. Neighborhood conflicts and community mediation: the moral construction of neighborhood in conflictive situations. Rev. Pilquen. secc. cienc. soc. [online]. 2020, vol.23, n.3, pp.13-25. ISSN 1851-3123.

Through a study located in the Dirección Municipal de Defensa al Consumidor y Relaciones Vecinales de Canto Gris (Municipal Directorate for Consumer Protection and Neighborhood Relations of Canto Gris), it is proposed to trace an analytical relationship between proximity conflicts handled in this area -within the framework of the implementation of community mediation as a mechanism for conflict settlement- and neighborhood as a type of particular moral order that becomes visible in this type of situation. The presence of a series of elements that go beyond the original declared motive that leads to the processing of the conflict in the local office account for a set of values associated with a broader notion of neighbor expressed by the actors that highlight the moral dimension of the neighborhood relations. Through an ethnographic approach and supported by Gluckman s central thesis of conflict, contributions centred on the symbolic dimension of social processes and more recent developments aimed at understanding conflicts in the context of state conflict settlement devices, it is proposed to know how plots of meanings about neighborhood operate in the local state processing of disputes in a medium-sized city.

Keywords : Conflict; Mediation; Moral; Neighborhood.

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