The policy in urban disputes. A review on anthropological debates, epistemic bifurcations and analytical dualisms

Abstract

The article develops a bibliographic review on popular political action in urban metropolitan disputes in the period between 2004 and 2014. Two empirical areas of anthropological theorization are presented: urbanizations of villas and land occupations in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires. The argument raises an epistemological bifurcation when it comes to understanding the political practice in mobilizations for access to popular habitat. The objective of the work critically organizes a state of the art that revisits the debate on political clientelism and explores crossings with "the right to the city", which is the new paradigm from which traditional urban disputes are read.