Los sentidos de la manifestación: Prácticas, relatos e imágenes entorno de la "Masacre del 26 de Junio en Avellaneda"

Abstract

The mobilization of the urban poor within the frame of piqueteros' organizations in the suburbs of Buenos Aires has been matter of two different approaches. On the one hand an ethnographic focus, that explores the associative networks interweaved by impoverished organizations and neighbors; and a sociological glance, that concentrates on the conditions and forms of collective construction of the organizations. Nevertheless, less attention has been paid to the public and interactive construction of the events of social protest that involve the piqueteros' organizations of this urban area. Building on this void, we seek to put forward a preliminary exploration of some dimensions of that public construction in the case of the socalled 'Massacre of June 26th in Avellaneda'. Understanding these events as a manifestation, that is to say: 'corporal and discursive interventions in the public sphere involving political content [in a broad sense of the term] and resorting to the tools of street mobilization', we seek both to reconstruct a narrative of those events and to develop a description and analysis of what several involved actors maintained that 'one had to think' about what had actually happened