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This work is part of an interdisciplinary program of heritage studies, specifically in a research Project that seeks to analyze the relationship that local communities in intermediate cities establish with cultural heritage. In this sense, studies have been carried out in the central area of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Benito Juárez's party constitutes one of the cases in which it has been systematically investigated for 5 years. I thighlights some peculiarities regarding the processes of enhancement and asset activation that put on the stage different, but articulated, management and participation modalities: state, alternative and community. Objective Within this framework, it is proposed to identify and analyze the discursivities that are constructed, from the native state perspective, during the act of patrimonialization of the founding stay of the party: «El Sol Argentino». Method A qualitative methodology based on participant observation during the event and analysis of public political discourses was used. Results It was possible to identify that the values putting to play by the management to legitimize said cultural asset as local heritage are those referring to its materiality, especially its architectural conditions and not those related to a common history that enables new logics of meaning, use and appropriation of good. Conclusions We consider that the main challenge is to promote patrimonial practices that enable other forms of nonhegemonic reflection, of a more collective and community type. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from an autobiographical journey with references to certain experiences in the area of childhood, the article analyzes the shifts in the political agenda of the city of Buenos Aires between the 80's and 90's. Upon the return of democracy, early childhood seemed to be among the agenda priorities but was later relegated. In contrast, the "children from / on the street" emerged as a more urgent and visible problem that allowed to confront with institutionalization policies -which were emblematic of the tutelary model-. In addition, those years witnessed the emergence of programs "alternative" to assistentialism and to the aforementioned model, combining socio-educational projects and territorial support networks in critical situations. The article draws from (and is written from the level of) the implementation of these experiences -diverse in their modalities but with some shared characteristics in terms of their framing and approach-that are usually overshadowed by the dichotomous confrontation between two models (the tutelary and the rights approach) that strengthened that period's agenda towards a normative dispute. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is part of a study intended to elucidate the current modalities of social intervention on children at risk in Argentina, as part of what is known as child protection and from a rights-based approach. I attempt to comprehend these modalities of intervention by focusing on the actions of the institutional agents of a state organism for the protection of children's rights in a mid-range area of Buenos Aires. The material presented here stems from an ethnographic and narrative approach to the actions carried out by these agents in relation to the families with which they interact, in order to access some of the significant schemes that frame them. I conducted my fieldwork in 2018, during a fivemonth internship in the organization, using participant observation as the main research technique. I argue that the trust that permeates the bond between state agents and the families targeted by the interventions is conceived as a moral value that conveys the instructive work carried out, fundamentally, on womenmothers. This characteristic does not serve to make relationships more flexible, but rather reestablishes itself to stylize control and surveillance mechanisms. At the same time, families make use of available institutional rhetoric as a way of translating their social experience into the language of rights, thus effecting the expected transformation. This work shows how current models of intervention involving children and their families incorporate new elements such as trust and affection, which, however, are woven with enduring power mechanisms typical of the scope of the state's protective services. It also discusses the place of families in the interaction with state agents to enable an understanding of their actions based on the use and appropriation of the language of rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]