This article analyzes the tensions between work and intimacy for gay men in Argentina. Through interviews with young gay men in Buenos Aires, three labor of love tasks are identified that intertwine with the workplace. These tasks include negotiating identity when coming out at work, fulfilling desires and the role of eroticism in accessing work, and stabilizing relationships and how employment or unemployment becomes an obstacle. It is concluded that it is necessary to analyze the intersections between love and work in terms of both form and content. [Extracted from the article]
For over a decade, social and political scientists stress the centrality of citizen security policies within the political dynamics of the province of Buenos Aires. In general, the literature emphasizes that the Buenos Aires police is an organization with a high capacity to become autonomous and carry out security policies according to their interests, often illegal and repressive. However, recent research has emphasized the dependence of the police operation of political and social terms. In this context, the aim of the paper is to analyze which actors have the ability to influence the formulation of security policies and how. The central hypothesis of this work consider that governors are the actors with capacities and interests to pursue a policy of security of left or right according to their plan of campaign, which responds to other factors which are not the alleged police interests: mainly the ideology of the national executive and the location of the median voter. The corroboration of this hypothesis instructs on the strategic game behind securities policies and the relative autonomy of the police and the penal system in Argentina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]