De extensiones a barrios y de comisiones de vecinxs a uniones vecinales. Formas de clasificación estatal y prácticas de organización barrial

The Latin American context and its high rates of urban informality have been analyzed from various social disciplines. The link established between neighborhood organizations and the State has been one of the topics of study, although there is an overrepresentation of what happens in large cities, in relation to intermediate cities. This work is the product of an ethnographic investigation that aimed to review the neighborhood organization practices of those who live in informal settlements and the way in which they dispute with the State to achieve the urban integration of their neighborhood in a medium-sized Patagonian city. We are interested in examining the way in which the daily intervention of the State in the settlements was built and the effects that this had on the forms of organization of the neighbors, that is, on neighborhood politics. The field work consisted of interviews and field records, as well as the analysis of journalistic sources and official documents. Through the survey of the meanings and forms of state classification of space in the Las Américas neighborhood, we analyze the relationship between residents and the municipality. Based on a relational understanding of state practices, our study allowed us to see how the channels of political representation recognized by the State, in this case the neighborhood Neighborhood Unions, influenced the elections of referents in the neighborhood and how the neighbors disputed the forms of organization imposed by the State. El contexto latinoamericano y sus altos índices de informalidad urbana han sido analizados desde diversas disciplinas sociales. El vínculo que se establece entre las organizaciones barriales y el Estado ha sido uno de los tópicos de estudio, aunque existe una sobrerrepresentación de lo que sucede en las grandes ciudades en relación a las ciudades intermedias. Este trabajo es producto de una investigación etnográfica que se propuso revisar las prácticas de organización barrial de quienes residen en asentamientos informales y el modo en que disputan con el Estado para lograr la integración urbana de su barrio en una ciudad media patagónica. Nos interesa examinar el modo en que se construyó la intervención cotidiana del Estado en los asentamientos y los efectos que esta tuvo en las formas de organización de lxs vecinxs, es decir, en la política barrial. El trabajo de campo constó de entrevistas y registros de campo, así como del análisis de fuentes periodísticas y documentos o