On the road to social power. The case of passengers on Buenos Aires urban trains (2002-2017)

Authors

  • Candela Hernandez Centro Cultural de la Cooperación

Keywords:

Railways, Social power, Collective action, Transport, Public services

Abstract

This article aims to address the different forms of action carried out by passengers on Buenos Aires urban trains – whether individual or collective, formal or informal, as well as extra-institutional - to express their disagreement with the conditions of provision of services. The key to the analytical question is in problematizing to what extent they find conditions of possibility for its realization and in what way they act favorably or to the detriment of the construction of greater degrees of social power of the users of the rail transport. The methodology used articulates different sources and tools for data collection. it uses official information provided by the National Transport Regulatory Commission (CNRT), its own surveys, systematic records in social networks and interviews with key informants.

Author Biography

Candela Hernandez, Centro Cultural de la Cooperación

Socióloga, Magister en Investigación en Ciencias Sociales. Doctora en Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). Becaria posdoctoral CONICET con sede en el Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani (UBA). Investigadora del Centro Cultural de la Cooperación, Departamento de Estudios Sociológicos.

Published

2021-08-26