How and why do political parties, seemingly focused on electoral politics, also mobilise within contentious arenas? Drawing on qualitative research with a centre‐left Argentine party called Nuevo Encuentro (NE) in the city of Buenos Aires this paper demonstrates the importance of a geographical reading of “movement parties” for responding to this question. Specifically, the paper analyses NE’s territorialisation, understood as a strategy for organisation building via the political appropriation of space, typically by opening branches and mobilising activists in neighbourhoods. Between 2007 and 2019 NE’s strategy of territorialisation mobilised across multiple scales—the neighbourhood, city and national—yet in so doing its organisation became overstretched and struggled to engage across both contentious and electoral arenas. Through an analysis of NE’s territorialisation, grounded in the historical and geographical context of contemporary Argentina, the paper provides an original attempt to spatialise the concept of movement party.

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领土运动党：布宜诺斯艾利斯的Nuevo Encuentro案

看似专注于选举政治的政党又如何以及为什么在有争议的领域内动员起来？在布宜诺斯艾利斯市，与一个名为Nuevo Encuentro（NE）的中左翼阿根廷政党进行定性研究，本文证明了对“运动政党”进行地理解读对于回答这一问题的重要性。具体来说，本文分析了NE的地域性，这被理解为通过空间的政治占用来进行组织建设的策略，通常是通过在附近开设分支机构和动员积极分子来实现的。在2007年至2019年之间，NE的地域化战略在邻国，城市和国家的多个层面上动员起来，但这样做却使组织变得过度紧张，并且难以在有争议的和选举的领域中介入。