Community territorialities in peri-urbans:
conditions of territorial transformation based on two case studies in Argentina
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This article analyses the conditions under which community territorialities succeed in transforming peri-urban territory according to their interests, in contexts of unequal urbanisation. We define community territorialities as the set of collective strategies and practices driven by actors oriented by the logic of necessity, who dispute the use, control and legitimacy of peri-urban land. Drawing on two case studies in Argentina – the dispute over a plot of land in Abasto (La Plata) and the defence of Tambo La Resistencia in Nuevo Alberdi (Rosario) – the article identifies three conditions that determine their transformative capacity: the internal articulation of actors, the ability to build social and/or public legitimacy around the interest associated with a particular land use, and the type of institutional translation they encounter in their interaction with the state. The analysis shows that the logic of necessity does not automatically produce convergence among popular sectors, and that the productive-food function of peri-urban land operates with less institutional legitimacy than residential use, even when it sustains central conditions of social reproduction.
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