Abstract

GUERRERO, Elsa Marcela; WAGNER, Lucrecia Soledad; RODRIGUEZ, Corina Iris  and  SOSA, Beatriz Soledad. COLLECTIVE ACTIONS AND NATURAL RESOURCES IN CONFLICT: ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF URBAN STRUGGLES FOR WATER AND HILLS IN TANDIL, ARGENTINA. Luna Azul [online]. 2015, n.41, pp.274-295. ISSN 1909-2474.  https://doi.org/10.17151/luaz.2015.41.15.

Different social-environmental expressions have occurred at the local level in the last decades in the Municipality of Tandil. Some of these actions respond to environmental effects of some activities -mining, contaminating activities installation, the urban struggles for access to land, water or better environmental conditions, the problems of urban and industrial solid waste and other environmental justice claims. This work discusses, from a theoretical approach and through the empirical analysis of certain cases, the main epistemological considerations associated to central concepts which allow to understand and explain social actions against the environmental struggle. Therefore, it is interesting to identify certain problems describing the conflicts and collective actions of urban struggles claiming improvement in the local environmental conditions. The main goal of this work is to establish some collective actions in space and time. In order to do this, four case studies of urban struggle caused by two natural resources competing, the mountain landscape and undergraound water resources, are analyzed. iCase study selection as research method responds to the exploratory nature of the topic addressed. Inductive logic inference favors the identification of the most appropriate category analysis for its approach and leave proof of organization forms, collective strategies and answers against the claims presented. Comparison, documental observation -local newspapers, websites, private and public files- and interviews to qualified informants were used as knowledge production techniques. In all the cases under study, struggles are framed by State crisis context as the provider of participation spaces that favor the legitimation of new spaces for the social-environmental claim. Particularly each case presents particularities and generalities that are possible to identify and describe.

Keywords : Mining; access to drinking water; urban struggles; environmental history; comparative method.

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