Abstract

HERNANDEZ, Candela. Conflicts, disputes and public problems. The case of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Railways in the print media (2002-2015). Dixit [online]. 2020, n.33, pp.1-14.  Epub Dec 01, 2020. ISSN 1688-3497.  https://doi.org/10.22235/d33.2373.

The aim of this article is to account for the stages in which the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area's Railway System for Passengers (RMBA for its Spanish acronym) turns into a public matter for the period 2002-2015. This analysis is approached from the evolution of the conflicts developed within the system and the controversies surrounding its social problematization in the public arena from the treatment given to the subject in the press. A quantitative and qualitative methodological strategy is implemented by combining the use of primary and secondary sources. It is argued that the disturbances of the system (conflicts and accidents) contributed to progressively develop the debate around the definition of the railway issue, strengthening its shaping as a public matter associated with corruption’s issues.

Keywords : social conflict; public problem; public arena; railway system of passengers; press..

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