Linked Violence, Problematic Consumption, and Community Care in Reconquista Area, Argentina
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This article examines the relationship among violence, substance use, and community care in the popular (low-income) neighborhoods of the Área Reconquista within Argentina’s Greater Buenos Aires conurbation (2001-2022). It is a case study that combines in situ participant observation with interviews conducted with key stakeholders. Using the category of interlinked violences, the analysis shows that micro-trafficking, indebtedness, gender-based and institutional violence, environmental precariousness, and territorial disputes intersect and mutually reinforce one another, constituting a web of persistent harms in these neighborhoods. Neighborhood responses —soup kitchens, neighborhood networks, and local organizations— offer partial protection against violence, but they lack the capacity to reverse the structural causes of violence.
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Copyright (c) 2026 José Garriga Zucal, Romina Rajoy, Joaquín Zajac
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José Garriga Zucal (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas)
Principal investigator at the CONICET, Universidad Nacional de San Martín
Romina Rajoy (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas)
Doctoral fellow in Anthropology at Conicet, Universidad Nacional de San Martín
Joaquín Zajac (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas)
Postdoctoral fellow at Conicet, Universidad Nacional de San Martín
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Agencia Nacional de Promoción de la Investigación, el Desarrollo Tecnológico y la Innovación
Grant numbers PICT-2021-I-A00456 “‘Acá es así’. Una investigación sobre la relación entre segregación espacial de la pobreza y violencias institucionales en el Área Reconquista”

