Judicialización y política en un proceso de relocalización: estrategias y discurso de la Defensa Pública de Buenos Aires

Judicialization and politics in a resettlement process: strategies and discourse of Buenos Aires’s Public Defender

Abstract

In 2010, a judicial sentence initiated a resettlement process of the people who lived on the border of a polluted river in Buenos Aires. Reluctant to accept it without making themselves heard, they involved the Public Defender’s Office, whose practices are paradigmatic of a growing ‘judicial activism’. The goal of this article is to examine this attorneys’ discourse and strategies as well as to analyze the ways in which the political and juridical logics articulate in the conflict over the riverside dweller’s demands.

Keywords:
Public defenders; Resettlements; Judicial activism