Singularities of the feminist field in La Plata. Social conflict in a head city and its relationship with Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires

Abstract

This paper addresses some emerging topics from my PhD research, entitled “From waves to sand. The configuration of the feminist movement in the city of La Plata (2001-2019)”. This research seeks to provide knowledge about the ways of doing feminist politics in Argentina from a case study focused on the head city of the Province of Buenos Aires. The paper investigates two singularities of the feminist field based on the analysis of eleven interviews with activists and the review of news from the digital archive of El Día newspaper. On the one hand, it addresses the characteristics of the political link established by the interviewees between the city of La Plata and Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. This is relevant as feminist political genealogy in Argentina tends to emphasize on the processes developing in the latter. On the other hand, it analyzes the circuits created by feminist conflict during the years 2003-2006 in La Plata. The article is organized as follows. First, it presents the concepts of feminist wave, field and social conflict. Then, it addresses the characteristics that the specialized bibliography makes of the social conflict in the Argentina of the new millennium to later register in this framework the feminist conflict in the city of La Plata in the years 2003-2006. Finally, it addresses the significance that being an activist in a city located sixty kilometers from CABA has. It should be noted that the following are partial results of an ongoing investigation.