La toma del Parque Indoamericano. Un disparador para pensar a la política pública en movimiento

Abstract

During December 2010, families with critical housing needs of the City of Buenos Aires seized an abandonded piece of land in the southern city´s area known as Indoamerican Park. The subsequent eviction process took the life of three of the squatters, triggering an impasse between both City´s and the Federal Government over the definition of the conflict and the policies to dive it to a salution. Through this case study, this article focuses on the stances assumed by the involved state actors so as to consider how they constructed a definition of the conflict. It points to an appraisal of the elaboration and implementation of public policies in a social conflictdriven setting. Secondary sources (such as newspaper articles, official documents and academic papers related to the issue) have been mobilized in order to reconstruct the case as well its structural scenario as well as to conduct our thematic analysis. By the same token, this article involves itself in a discussion with several academic analysis of these same events.