Work, Social Policies and Rights: Bodyness and Prefigurations in Córdoba (Argentina) Recycling

Abstract

This article is aimed at analyzing practices, corporealities and prefigurations of recycling in Córdoba, through the biographies, experiences and sensitivities of workers in the sector. The first section refers to the metamorphosis of the “world of work” in the last half century and the "new" emotional dispositions, in a local/global scenario. In a second section, we characterize the bodily wefts and social sensitivities deployed towards/from disposable workers, who live with/from (other people's) garbage. Then, we describe some of the fundamentals common to the social policies of "inclusion" and "social economy" implemented in the region in recent years. Based on documentary sources, specialized bibliography, journalistic and institutional publications, interviews to protagonists and field notes, a series of practices (such as daily practices), corporealities ("cooperative", "feminine" and "vulnerable") and prefigurations ("ecological", "inclusive", "circular", of recycling) are analyzed. Finally, some interpretations about the habit of working with the things that others dispose of (products, works and services) are offered, the processes of collective "self-management" of vulnerable energies and the "new" social sensitivities for/to recycling.