Temporalidades fragmentadas:

la experiencia social de trabajadores petroleros de la Cuenca Neuquina

Abstract

A very proliferous debate around the regulatory policies on oligopolies and their results after almost two decades has been taking place since the deregularization of the hydrocarbon activity. At the same time, a focus of concern has been the high level of conflictivity that has been taking place on villages historically dedicated to this economic activity. On the other hand, the economic crisis has allowed social science to update the debates around the drama of unemployment that characterized the economic reforms of the last decade. Following these issues, we inquire on the social dinamics that encircles the biographic experiences of hydrocarbon workers of the Cuenca Neuquina. We build a relationship between the present state of capitalism and the territory of hydrocarbon production with the objective of understanding the expressions of a particular subjectivity that is built around horizons of life characterized by a fragmentation of time and space. Then, we analyze the dynamics of migrant workers in two villages: Rincón de los Sauces y Buta Ranquil, where they live during the labor week away from their nuclear families. Within this framework, we consider about the lonelyness and uprooting that their personal horizons of life reveal.