The neighbor groups in defence of their neighborhoods: The building of politics from local scale

Abstract

The massive construction of buildings in some communes of Santiago, the construction of haighways or the widening of streets are some public and/or private interventions that have aroused the uneasiness of their neighbors. They have organized themselves into neighborhood groups which have gained prominence in e local discussion on urban development in recent years.This article proposes a conceptual line to read these groups from the heterogeneity of their discourse, for understanding their collective action and their effects on the urban agenda.