Vivre à crédit (pauvreté, économie et usages du droit dans un grand ensemble à Buenos Aires)

Based on a three-year research in a social housing neighborhood in Buenos Aires that hosts 20,000 dwellers, this paper studies the linkages between the economy, the legal system and the interpersonal relationships upon which depends the daily economy of the households, through a singular methodology that combines observations in situ, interviews with dwellers of the neighborhood and public officials, statistical data, private correspondence, household budgets, and administrative files. While in the 1970s there was an attempt to property rights to all the citizens, 30 years later, there exists a wide range of tenure status which threats the public interventions. The debt is at the core of this market's structure. "To live on credit" means that the debts are a structural pièce of information." To live on credit" means that the relationships oscillate between the contract and the violence, trust and threaten. Here, the deals attempt to consolidate the exchanges and guarantee the obligations, supported by behavioral mottos and uses of the law. To inherit a bequest outside the family, to sell or lend, to legitimately squatter a property, to go over the public service offices or request assistantship to the National President, are ail activities that indicate how the law guides the ways of thinking and acting, in its multiple branches, at the same time civil, penal and social. / PARIS7-Bibliothèque centrale (751132105) / Sudoc / Sudoc / France / FR