La triple incomodidad de una experticia técnica bastarda: una etnografía experimental y colaborativa sobre el saber-hacer con materiales reciclables “sin mercado”
UNA ETNOGRAFÍA EXPERIMENTAL Y COLABORATIVA SOBRE EL SABER-HACER CON MATERIALES RECICLABLES “SIN MERCADO
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-6524.125348Abstract
This article presents the first results of an ongoing experimental and collaborative ethnographic research, developed with members of the Cooperativa Reciclando Sueños, La Matanza. (Buenos Aires, Argentina) This cooperative has developed a particular technical expertise that involves experimentation actions on plastic and cellulosic waste that do not have the possibility of being commercialized in the recyclable materials market. As a result, they have managed to make viable treatment processes on materials previously considered “non-recyclable”, even representing a substantial part of their income generation strategy. To this aim, we begin by mobilizing the seminal notion of technique as an "effective traditional act" elaborated by Mauss and proposed as a trigger in this Dossier, and intend to reconstruct and analyze scenes from the field work that allow us to problematize this bastard technical expertise from the pairs legitimacy/efficacy and tradition/transmission. From this perspective, we analyze the challenges and tensions of the professionalization and escalation process that the cooperative is currently going through, as a result of the growing stabilization of the aforementioned expertise