En “Sweetness in one hand and bitterness in the other.” Systematization of an exchange of knowledge about problematic consumption and IAP processes in working-class neighborhoods.

Abstract

This article proposes to socialize a training experience from the exchange of academic-popular knowledge on problematic consumption and the current context. It is a workshop from which an exploratory approach was proposed to three intertwined issues: problematic consumption, community strategies of women from popular neighborhoods to face this problem, and the methodological process of Participatory Action Research (PAR). Starting from considering the problem of consumption as a current manifestation of the social issue and a situation of personal and citizen pain, which needs to be understood and addressed from multiple perspectives, and also alerting about the growth and expansion of this problem in the popular neighborhoods that make up the city of Salta, it seemed highly relevant to us to offer from our house of studies -UCASAL- a space and time for the approach, the meeting, the reflection and the enabling of networks around this problem and its approach from a comprehensive and situated perspective. This article aims to systematize and socialize this experience.