Tipos de mediadores sociales y conflictos emergentes en la aplicacion de norativas en Norpatagonia

Abstract

This article aims to investigate the role of “social mediators” as subjects who, in one way or another, mediate the relationship between public policies and local contexts/communities. This mediation also involves political and institutional articulations, as well as the direct participation of institutions that were not initially linked to such policies. The sustained hypothesis is that in any application of regulations and public policies, phenomena and processes emerge, as well as subjects not foreseen in the original planning. These elements eventually redirect, modify, or re-signify the proposed axes, as well as their implementation, during policy management. We assume that, to understand the field of public policies and contribute to their better design and implementation, it is urgent to account for the different types of social mediators. These mediators may operate from the State to redirect policies or, from outside it and its planning, influence the forms of their application. This paper seeks to share how we have been developing the category theoretically, as well as testing its application in some of the empirical cases that we are analyzing as a research team using an ethnographic perspective.