Abstract

FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ, María Inés. Relationships of Kinship, Corporality and Affection in the Production of the Common: Reflections from an Ethnography with Workers of the Popular Economy in Argentina. rev.estud.soc. [online]. 2019, n.70, pp.25-36. ISSN 0123-885X.  https://doi.org/10.7440/res70.2019.03.

Starting from an ethnographic investigation with a cooperative of street hawkers from the Confederations of Workers of the Popular Economy (CTEP), this article explores the linkages between kinship, corporality and affections in the production of the common. I argue that this production entails the right to uphold a way of life that dates back at least three generations -the possibility of continuing to be-, as a starting point for a process of political experimentation to allow projecting a life worth living for themselves and for future generations, by producing rights and forms of collective wellbeing this population has historically been dispossessed of. More than thinking of the common as a given, this analysis seeks to contribute to a view of the common that serves the production process and focuses on the daily practices and relationships that shape it.

Keywords : Common; kinship; policy; popular economy; work..

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