Conflicto social, ambientalización y crisis política: judicialización en la cuenca Matanza-Riachuelo, Argentina

This paper examines the social and political factors that led to the judicialization of the environmental conditions of the Matanza-Riachuelo basin, a highly polluted territory in Buenos Aires that in 2006 became the object of an unprecedented problematization. Specifically, three factors will be analysed: the creation of an environmental field and the generation of a series of environmental conflicts; the environmentalization of social demands along the Riachuelo river and the emergence of a basin perspective; and the Supreme Court’s search for a political relaunch in response to a crisis of legitimacy.