In the settlement, the bodies are veiled under the open sky:

fleeting portraits of struggles and resistance in Salta

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to consider some ethnographic traces of an experience of struggle and resistance for the exercise of fundamental rights in the community of the 340-c settlement, located on the outskirts of the capital city of the province of Salta, Argentina. It is interesting to illustrate, through these textual passages, the plasticity and resilience that some popular sectors have to overcome contingent situations, conditioned by the survival of absolute poverty. These aspects should be thought of as a continuum that intertwines struggles-lifestyles in marginality, amalgamated with cultural processes through which the poorest of the poor populations pass, highlighting as background a series of conditioning variables among which are: the hyperdegraded conditions of the environment, the limitations of access to public services, and the social segregation they suffer. Qualitative methodology underpins our perspective, as we articulate ways of coding ethnographic and auto- ethnographic logs captured in field notebooks. The construction of our narrative is tinged by a transgressive writing modality, which articulates contributions from political philosophy, social sciences and literature.