Entre lo público y lo privado. Ciudadanía y configuraciones identitarias situadas en los petitorios del primer peronismo

In this work, certain emerging conflicts in La Rioja are problematized, to address the prevalence of Peronism in the province and understand the social dynamics that were deployed in the process of expanding new rights. Particularly, emphasis is placed on the issue of water, as an unavoidable social conflict in the analysis of citizenship, focusing on the condition of possibility of identity ties between subjects and the experience of Peronism. The objective of this work is to analyze the citizen identity processes, marked by the scarcity of water in La Rioja during the first Peronism. Methodologically, this work analyzes petition letters demanding for new social rights addressed to state authority figures, in order to assess their content in identity terms. This Study focuses on a letter written by a woman from Rioja, where a demand for public water works is expressed. This source is incorporated into the analysis, petitions and opinion articles published in La Rioja written press. In this way, problematization is proposed as a method to rethink the processes of expanding subjects’ identity as citizens in situated contexts. This work contributes to the reflections on the expansion of citizenship in our country, recovering a certain conflictive nature and from an identity perspective on the demands for new rights. Moreover, it results in the discussion on the construction of citizenship processes from bottom up and with a situated character.