“Blurring faces: painting with the colors of the world”: experiences of a small town in northwestern Córdoba

Abstract

This paper systematizes “experiences of meeting” in a village northwest of Córdoba. From analytical
categories of various authors, converted into tools, and literature ranging from demographics and
socio‐psychological to philosophical studies, this paper proposes understand the game of
intersubjectivity in rural contexts where the problems of suicide, alcoholism, apathy, gossip, interfere
optimization of a "work in common". We considered that needed to approche the "meeting experi‐
ences" with people there, to add qualitative surveys to information factual (census and general sta‐
tistics). Even when preceded by a good social diagnosis, our interventions hit a structure subjectivity
with cliches such as “people are bad here”, “nothing can change”, “cannot do anything”. We account
for a work in progress, which involves more openings and closings questions that firm conclusions.