The discourse like exercise of the territorially. Territorial discourses and disputes in the maritime coast bonaerense (Argentina)
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Abstract
This article discusses the tension between social actors raised in the dialectic of territorialization in certain coastal areas of Buenos Aires (Argentina) from a geographic and discursive perspective. We assume that the construction of territories does not always involve conflict, but every dispute about the character of a given space carries conflicting or divergent forms of territoriality. In those cases where conflict occurs across the territory a territorial discourse is activated. The first objective of this study is to propose a definition of territorial discourse.
The selected cases are territorial clashes around the development of tourism infrastructure in the Buenos Aires coast, responding to the simplest model of disputes: the opposition of a collective subject to a particular territorial process. A common property of the selected cases is the asymmetry in relations of social power. Actors who oppose the territorial intervention develop its strategy of territoriality through innovative and creative actions, including the practicing of territorial speeches. The second objective of this work is the analysis of these speeches made by those actors.
An interpretive analysis of territorial discourses was realized to meet the objectives. We applied the methods researching method in three regional social movements that shows local projection, organizational capacity and continuity, collecting information from its many forms of communication and dissemination.