(Militant career and political construction. A study of trajectories militants in the province of Jujuy)

Abstract

This article aims at giving an account of the way in which party militants carry out their political construction, understood as the strategy that the militant carries out in order to access the spaces for decision making and power, investigating the strategies developed by the militants to achieve public esteem, and the way in which they try to maintain an autonomy of the political parties of reference in the moment to build their political ties.
The discussion about political construction, in most cases, is subject to the capacity of political parties to achieve high electoral performance; that is, it would be determined by the structural conditions of the participation spaces. In this sense, this article concludes that political construction should not necessarily be associated with an institutional process of the party, but rather as a militant strategy from which they create ties with the aim of achieving a certain degree of public esteem. that position the militants in a higher status and guarantee their survival beyond the structural conditions of the party
For this work we will analyze the trajectories of two militants of traditional political parties of Jujuy, taking up the career perspective proposed by Howard Becker, who considers the trajectory as a model of ordered sequences of social behavior, considering the objective and subjective aspects. Methodologically, we chose to work with in-depth interviews based on the life story technique.