“The ones who need and the ones that no”. An approach to the political practice in Villa el Viento (Córdoba city)

Abstract

This article will discuss the political practices of people living in the winds slums, especially those relating to Municipal State involvement in the village. We’ll see how a tornado, which occurred in the year 2003, emerged as an event that generated a criterion of legitimacy for some people could improve their quality of life. This criterion was based on the condition of having been directly affected by the disaster to receive construction materials and food by the State. A family who lives in the slums positioned as an intermediary between the Municipality and the other neighbors, claiming legitimacy to decide who needed and who not the State’s assistance. This caused many conflicts between some people who questioned this logic of distribution, making different strategies for support, even though they never suffered the consequences of the tornado. The tornado also raised some representations and different practices around the notion of politics among people. Then we will see how this notion cannot be addressed without taking into account the particular contexts and social relations that weave people themselves and from which they organize and give meaning to the world.