FROM DEMATERNALIZATION AS “EMPOWEREMENT” TO THE TOLERANCE OF SELFMATERNALIZATION AS A RESPONSE: TENSIONS AND NEGOTIATIONS IN A COMMUNITY POLICY IN AN ARGENTINE RURAL DISTRICT

Abstract

This research is framed in the Argentine soy belt and its ethnographic work was carried out between 2014 and 2017. I will describe the socio-productive profile of the rural district where I worked. This will be followed by an analysis of the primary health care spaces and workshops and the way in which the implementation of the National Community Doctors Program was concretely extended in La Laguna. We will see the day-to-day of Salud en Movimiento and how it is a policy for women. So we will get to explain two analytical categories that we developed: global care and another one which is self-care or paradoxical self-care. We believe that it is very important in this sense to analyse a successful case of "provincialization" thanks to the perspectives of postcolonial feminism.