Struggle for housing and politicization of individual trajectories

Abstract

This article seeks to examine the ways and mechanisms adopted by the processes of politicization in the popular sectors in Chile. To this end, we analyze the case of the housing committee “MPL-Franklin” created weeks after the last earthquake of February 27, 2010. The thesis developed concerns the need to problematize the relationship between individual subjectivity and collective subjectivity to understand the politicization of demands, instrumental at first, which coordinate the movement. The concept of “political affection” is used to rebuild the link between the struggle for housing and the individual trajectories of the committee members. The research questions are: how the politicization of certain individuals in a social environment where passivity reigns can be explained?; How can we understand the affection of some individuals in politics, in a setting of general disaffection?