Iglesia y cuestión social: la intervención de la Iglesia Católica en la construcción de demandas de educación, tierra y vivienda en el Gran Buenos Aires

The aim of this paper is to analyse the types of intervention of Catholic Church agencies in the building of territorially grounded sectorial demands made by popular stratum from Buenos Aires outskirts, relating these demands to the transformation of social public policies into assistencialismo [clientelistic policy] and outsourcing in the past decades. To accomplish it, we will present and compare two case studies from an ethnographic standpoint: the building of educational demands and its progressive integration into structures binded to the bishopric of San Isidro; and the intervention of t...