On Argentine and the Southern Cone. Neoliberalism and National Imaginations

ALEJANDRO GRIMSON Y GABRIEL KESSLER

Routledge

Lugar: New York; Año: 2005 p. 221

0-415-94764-2

Se elige este libro,publicado en New York por la editorial Routledge y co-escrito con Alejandro Grimson porque sintetiza varías líneas de investigación que había desarrollado hasta el momento en una perspectiva comparativa con otros países de la región y articulado con las investigaciones del otro autor. Saskia Sassen, una de las lectoras del libro escribió en su contratapa "An extraordinary deciphering of one country´s engagement for and against neoliberalism. Grimson and Kessler use Argentine as an extreme case to get at the complexity of this engagement and avoid easy interpretations" The socio-cultural transformations taking place in Argentina during the 1990s and up to the present time will be analyzed and their regional repercussions examined.After depicting the different ways territory, State and society have been articulated in the course of Argentine history, in the first chapter the relations between Argentina and its neighbors in recent years are analyzed, as well as the Mercosur project and changes occurring along the borders in member countries.