Inhabiting as political learning: a social production experience of the habitat of the Cumpuchu Huarpe youth group

Abstract

The objective of this work is to think about the construction of a sports field as a political learning experience. Such experience arises from the Cumpuchu Huarpe, a youth group from the Paula Guaquinchay Huarpe community, located in Lavalle, Mendoza. The construction of the sports field emerges as the product of the Social Production of the Habitat, as it was a self-managed process based on the relationship of the group with other social actors such as organizations, members of the community, and the municipality in order to achieve their goal. The production experience was the product of group work and other processes linked to the politicization and transformation of the involved individual and collective subjects. The proposal is to give an account of the learning developed, not as ideas communicated from a mind to another, but as a process given among embodied subjects which takes place in practice. Thus, the sports field would not have been built without political learning, and the political learning would not have developed without the production of the sports field, both processes were indivisible.