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The irruption of social protest in big scale is a characteristic element of the Argentina's society from '90 decade to the present. The roadblock, the practice of the assembly, the emergence of social actors such as the "piqueteros", as well as traditional repertories such as strikes leaded by syndicates place these and other ways of collective action as privileged resources that scholars call "modular repertories", that is, models of actions that are used by the rest of the society despite the fact that they may not share the same goals of those who created them. In this sense, the following paper proposes the discussion on this phenomenon from a conceptual approach around the idea of political culture of protest. This idea is articulated on the tension between politics and culture concepts, the first idea of political culture, and de last contributions that come form theories of collective action applied to the social movements, protest and revolutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we will reflect on the science-technology and society relation through a particular case: participation HIV affected people in public spaces. We work on four cases of public interventions of different activist groups and NGO. We analyze the implications of this interventions on knowledge construction, on the relation of science and society and on the democratization of the policy. We based this work on bibliography material, secondary sources and interviews. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]