Social organizations, territory and memory. Theoretical, methodological and empirical elements for the construction of memory in social organizations. Tandil, 2000-2019. Research advances

Abstract

The work we present aims to reconstruct the social memory that territorial social organizations conserve / elaborate in the city of Tandil, from the year 2000 to the present. This research practice involves a process of co-construction of knowledge. Memory is understood as a process, as a genesis and a development in a specific time and space, that configures certain social relations, practices and ethical-political senses. This reconstruction is placed from a perspective that recovers the gaze from the inside of organizations, from a situational perspective and immersed in a process of co-construction of knowledge, which is necessary to visualize an action that "answers / questions" the dominant cultural logic.

In this work we will focus on three cultural centers of the city, with the aim of researching their concrete historical experience in depth and the processual and dialectical nature of the constructed social space. In this sense the territorial construction of organizations occurs in tension with other senses and practices. The spatializations and the tangibility that they imply acquire meaning in a relational perspective. It is the social relationships in which they are inscripted and participate that allow us to understand places as socially constructed territories, with senses and meanings. In order to go further in the knowledge of this process, both documents from the organizations and from the territorial space are analyzed, as well as data that arises from oral, written and audio-visual qualitative records.