Neighbours and citizens? An approach to the popular sector’s theory from an “industrial cartography” of the between wars Buenos Aires

Abstract

The “popular sector’s theory” postulate, towards the last century beginnings’ Buenos Aires, the dilution/blurring of the working class subject and the construction of an hybrid urban patchwork, without clears class’ divisions, with his consequent correlation in the urban scenography: living neighbourhoods more for “popular sectors” than working-class members or oligarchic bosses. The Saenz Peña’s law, the yrigoneyism's grown, the welfare-prevailed State and the social climbing possibility would be among the reasons. The citizen and neighbours ideas would be a materialization of this change. In this paper we are going to work on a historical events’ range that permits, at least, formulates some questions to that “city’s image”: the Buenos Aires last fourth nineteen century’s to his first twenty century’s fortnight; the “red” y “tragic” weeks; and the January 1936’s construction strike. Those works, in addition to an “industrial cartography” of the between war’s Buenos Aires, will lead as to analyse the neighbour category, one notion that us from colonial times.