Political constructions in march: About actions and collectives

Abstract

The “Marcha de la Gorra” is an annual mobilization that especially calls on a large number of young people from Córdoba, who report year after year, violent and exclusionary police practices that are understood as an expression of the public security policy of the Province of Cordoba (Argentina). During ten years of mobilization, the central demand has changed, but its priority claim has been the repeal of local contraventional rules, since its application, in police’s hands, constitutes those young people in their main victims. In this context, the article argues about the consideration of such local’ security policies in terms of “power devices” ((Foucault, 1991; Agamben, 2011 y Deleuze, 1990), as well as in the justification of the conceptualization of the March as an experience of political subjectivation (Rancière, 2007).
The methodological strategy has been qualitative, in particular a “collective ethnography of events” (Bonvillani, 2015a) has been developed, which has allowed, on the one hand, the construction of data in the event-march, from recordings of speeches and registers of those who ethnograph, and on the other hand, the a posteriori realization of interviews with participants of the March.