Enviromental Suffering and Risk. A case study of the social perceptions of the residents of 30 de Agosto in the context of a socio-environmental conflict

This article uses the concepts of “environmental suffering” (Auyero and Swistun, 2008) and “environmental risk” (Douglas, 1996; Beck, 1998) to analyze social perceptions of the inhabitants of 30 de Agosto, in the province of Buenos Aires, who organized a protest against a multinational company selli...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Iturralde, Rosario soledad
Formato: Artículo publishedVersion Artículo evaluado por pares
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA 2015
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/CAS/article/view/1597
https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=cantropo&d=1597_oai
Aporte de:
Descripción
Sumario:This article uses the concepts of “environmental suffering” (Auyero and Swistun, 2008) and “environmental risk” (Douglas, 1996; Beck, 1998) to analyze social perceptions of the inhabitants of 30 de Agosto, in the province of Buenos Aires, who organized a protest against a multinational company selling agro-products in the town center. To do so, we mainly address the contradictions and paradoxes experienced daily in a town affected by the negative consequences of the agribusiness model, taking into account the symbolic weight of agricultural employment and the discourse of scientific knowledge as key variables in the visibility and invisibility of risks.