Touristification process and participatory organizations in Tigre's Delta (Argentina)

This article analyses the emergence of an advisory body for community participation, the Permanent Island Advisory Council (Spanish acronym: CAPI) in Delta del Tigre (province of Buenos Aires, Argentina). This organisation aims to intervene in the elaboration and definition of public policies for the region in the context of tourism and real estate development on the islands. The analysis begins with a contextualization of the region’s touristification process and the conflicts associated to it. Next, the main groups that constitute the CAPI are described, with their different organisational logics and dissimilar strategies of engagement with State institutions. Likewise, the changing responses from the Municipal State to the islanders’ problems and demands are reviewed. The employed methodology was ethnographic fieldwork with participant observation and in-depth interviews from 2017 to the present. As a result, it is highlighted that CAPI’s participatory (non-representative) and consultative (non-resolutive) condition is the product of the synthesis between its main groups dissimilar logics and the Municipal State needs to institutionalize conflict resolution. To conclude, the importance of addressing the ways in which participatory public policies are redefined in the very process of their implementation is emphasized.

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Main Author: Halpin, Matías
Format: Digital revista
Language:spa
Published: Instituto de Investigaciones en Turismo, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata 2021
Online Access:https://revistas.unlp.edu.ar/ayana/article/view/12473
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