Social Clubs: Reconstruction spaces and the consolidation of urban identities

Abstract

In this work we present an advancement of our degree tesis, in progress, in which we will study the process of appearance and present meaning of the Social Clubes in La Plata city. The objective of this work is to establish which is the potencial that this spaces have for the reconstruction and consolidation of urban links.
We think its important the study of those spaces because the comunities links that gave them origin have inside itself the capacity of generating
transgenerationals, intercultural dialogs, creation and transformation of subjetivities, identity appropriation and civic-politic compromise. 
Around the identity issue, we are interested in deepening the many levels of identity adscription that goes through the social club in different historical moments, the close relationship that keeps with the neighboorhood in its process of generation and the link between its “popularization” stage with the national simbolic production to think about the present  crisis of the clubs in the mayor frame of the globalization process and  the rupture that implies the transit from a modern way of thinking and living in the city to a posmodern one.