What the water reveals. Post-flood socio-productive arrangements in an Argentine agricultural sector
This article analyses from an ethnographic perspective, two flood events that occurred in the productive peri-urban area of La Plata, Argentina, in 2017 and 2023-2024. The research focuses on the horticultural and floricultural sectors, where floods profoundly disrupt productive and reproductive dyn...
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Escuela de Antropología - FHyA
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistadeantropologia.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revistadeantropologia/article/view/316 |
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| Sumario: | This article analyses from an ethnographic perspective, two flood events that occurred in the productive peri-urban area of La Plata, Argentina, in 2017 and 2023-2024. The research focuses on the horticultural and floricultural sectors, where floods profoundly disrupt productive and reproductive dynamics, revealing growing social and environmental vulnerability. Producers' responses include migration, livelihood diversification, the use of loans and the adoption of agroecological practices—everyday strategies that intensify after each flood. These catastrophic events sometimes function as liminal moments that allow social actors to reconstruct their material conditions and everyday relationships, such as the transition to agroecology. However, these creative arrangements must be understood as articulated with organisational and state support, as well as with networks of trust grounded in kinship and shared place of origin. |
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