Where Do They Come From? Trajectories of Neo-rural Youth in MoCaSE-VC
In academic production, city-to-country migration, or neo-ruralism, has been understood as a process mainly led by middle and upper-class sectors that revalue the rural as a tourist and residential space, in opposition to a city considered increasingly chaotic, impersonal, and/or unsafe. However, th...
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Escuela de Antropología - FHyA
2024
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistadeantropologia.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revistadeantropologia/article/view/291 |
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| Sumario: | In academic production, city-to-country migration, or neo-ruralism, has been understood as a process mainly led by middle and upper-class sectors that revalue the rural as a tourist and residential space, in opposition to a city considered increasingly chaotic, impersonal, and/or unsafe. However, this work aims to highlight cases of city-to-country migration where the protagonists are young people from urban popular sectors who build a life project in rural territories. In particular, I emphasize experiences that have been driven by the Peasant Movement of Santiago del Estero - Via Campesina (MoCaSE-VC) since the establishment of the Peasant University (UNICAM) in Ojo de Agua, a community with more than 60 inhabitants from different towns and cities of the country. I am interested in investigating the daily practices of these young people from "popular neighborhoods," paying special attention to the ways in which they intertwine their life trajectories with the political-organizational projects in defense of the territory carried out by MoCaSE-VC. The aim of this paper is to propose possible lines of research recognizing the current state of the issue. Thus, I propose three keys of analysis as a starting point for investigating the "return to the countryside" that youth are carrying out in rural areas of Santiago del Estero. |
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