Spatial dispute and political participation in twenty years of community cultural management of Teatro Comunitario de Berisso (Buenos Aires)

Abstract

This work analyzes the devices for constructing territorial power deployed by the Berisso Community Theater group (province of Buenos Aires, Argentina) in its twenty years of community cultural management. Specifically, the strategies developed in the dispute over the appropriation and construction of space, the types of relationships that the group establishes with the different actors of the local political and cultural fabric and their participation in public cultural policies are studied. We used a transdisciplinary theoretical scaffolding with contributions from sociology, cultural policies, cultural management, history and the field of community, theater studies and a qualitative methodology that included field records such as in-depth interviews with group leaders and documentary analysis. Along these lines, this work seeks to provide new interpretative keys to understand the processes of community cultural management in urban territories.