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This ethnographic analysis of the ways in which different inhabitants of an intermediate city in the center of Buenos Aires province deal with their neighborhood disputes within the framework of a municipal community mediation center sheds light on the complex symbolic plots that articulate unique local ideas of justice and community. The latter gives rise to a contractual regime, at once diffuse and inescapable, which establishes senses of justice that entail a particular type of legal sensitivity in their concrete realization. On the basis of an ethnographic study underway since 2011, which has taken participant observation as its distinctive feature, this article examines these articulations focusing on the sociocultural senses that make them possible and on the treatment of this type of sociocultural conflict.

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This article participates in the contemporary debate about the social management of the rights of children and adolescents, particularly in local and institutional dynamics of protection and public assistance. To this end, we approached some institutional subjects and spaces articulated with the Colombian Family Welfare Institute (ICBF) in the city of Cali, in order to document some of the effects of the new comprehensive protection law (Law 1098/2006, Code on Children and Adolescents) in the discursiveness of those in charge of operationalizing its provisions. This approach, built through semi-structured interviews and supplemented with local press information, shows a legal field full of ambiguities and contradictions, where legal sensitivities are woven with an orientation towards the inscription of children and adolescents in both citizenship discourses and discourses of compassion/repression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]