La conflictividad social a ras del suelo (Mar del Plata, 1997-2002).

Situated within the field of social conflict studies and focused on the local scale, this paper provides an overview of social conflict in the city of Mar del Plata (Buenos Aires, Argentina) between January 1997 and February 2002. It centres on two analytical dimensions: firstly, the paper delineates the topics of conflict; and secondly, it identifies what type of organisations participated, with particular emphasis on the ways state agencies were involved. The methodological approach is quantitative, based on the development of a database on conflict taking a local newspaper as its historical source. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]