Snapshots of struggle: root thought and participatory action research as a modality of approach to the Popular Neighborhoods of Salta-Argentina

Abstract

In this brief essay, we will seek to approximate ways of implementing qualitative methodologies, heuristically articulating what we call root thought. We will counterpoint with some theoretical aspects to support collaborative work aligned with the IAP and carried out together with the Barrios Populares of Salta capital and the National University of Salta. Likewise, we will give a panoramic account of the struggle of the communities for fundamental rights, highlighting organization tactics and centralization of collective actions from the provincial table of popular neighborhoods. Some data and reflections arising from the time of research that is carried out to date at the table that articulates the neighborhoods, as well as passages of experiences carried out with students of the degree in Philosophy (UNSa), are amalgamated here as gestures pictorial and conjunctive crosses between readings and experiences, as a dialogue between practice and theory. It is the qualitative methodologies, together with the IAP perspective, that support our position. The analytical work is nourished by diverse disciplines of the Social Sciences, Latin American Thought and Philosophy. The field diary and the camera are the logs from which we draw as inputs for the analysis of our practices.