En la rompiente: subjetividades arrancadas de la costa, subjetividades arrastradas a la costa. Conflictos socioterritoriales y socioambientales en torno al principal balneario uruguayo

Two groups of reports collected in different field works are presented below: an ethnography and biographical narrative methodology. Neither has had the objective to produce material about the relationships the participants maintain with the environment, however, a significant finding has been the emergence of this topic as a nucleus of high value for them. This article proposes to analyze the subjective dimensions of these narratives, loaded with environmental memory, to contribute with the understanding of the social, environmental and territorial conflicts present in the eastern zone of Uruguay. Despite the diversity of their trajectories, both the inhabitants of Maldonado and Punta del Este who have been forced to leave their homes along the coast, as well as low-income internal migrants, whom the former blame for urban and environmental degradation, common elements are found, painful subjectivities, which have had to adjust to a continuous loss of the spaces that live as their own. At the same time, migrants give account of trajectories to which these coasts have offered them an opportunity for recomposition, where the esthetic elements of the environment, in a broad sense, play a significant role.