The municipality and neighborhood associative entities in argentine cities: its resignification after the decentralization of the ‘80s A case study: The municipality of Río Cuarto and their neighborhood associations

In Argentina, the restructuring of the State initially raised as a public policy in the 1980s and iepth in the ‘ 90s under the neoliberal model accentuated - between other processes, of the administrative decentralization, which also resulted in new roles awarded to municipalities. That’s how various actors in society charged leadership. The local and urban were the subject of renewed interpretations, scenarios where practices more fully participatory citizen could be settled. In the neighborhoods of cities, grass-roots organizations cultivated his role as space intermediation. This article discusses and reflects on these new roles that launched from the changes in articulation with the municipality since the mid-’ 80s and ‘ 90s, and problematizes particularly about the contents and scope of participatory practices inside and outside of organizations of civil society in the neo-liberal situation.