¿Cómo es posible que una toma de tierras se convierta en un barrio popular planificado? Condiciones y actores intervinientes en un caso de la periferia de la Ciudad de La Plata

Abstract

This article discusses the conditions that made land taking on the periphery of the city of La Plata possible. It also deals with the way in which the intervention and articulation of different actors created a particular setting within the said territory, which led it to become a planned popular neighborhood. The land taking took place in 2015, in Abasto –to the West of the city– and it is meaningful due to several conditions that characterized it: its extension, since the area taken was 56 hectares which host over 1000 families; and the speed with which the expropriation process took place, giving rise to various state measures. We claim that there is a series of conditions –the political conjuncture, the state intervention and the dynamics of collective organization– that allow us to understand the singularity of the process.