Procesos identitarios y organizativos, experiencias de persistencia de mercados y ferias en la Patagonia argentina

Abstract

To face increasingly exclusive development models, collective and self-managing forms of production, work and access to food have appeared. In this article, we seek to understand how identity and organizational processes contribute to the persistence of these experiences and the changes caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. We base ourselves on a case study of fairs and markets in the Andean Region, in Argentine Patagonia, where, through interviews from a perspective that articulates the popular and solidarity economy and critical agrarian social studies, we identify heterogeneous groups that combine individual motivations and collective objectives with dynamic organizational forms that allow them to respond to emerging challenges and propose new social ties.