"Ganar las calles" "Defender derechos" Neoliberal State, Resistence and Social Mobilization in Argentina.

GRIMBERG, MABEL

Florianópolis

Congreso; 18th IUAES World Congress,; 2018

Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina

The two years of neoliberal policies implemented by the government of "Cambiemos" constituted a deep rupture with the "policies of inclusion" and "extension of rights" of the Kirchner decade. Their simultaneity and forcefulness resulted in a growing expropriation and transfer of income towards the most concentrated sectors and in a marked increase in social inequality, unemployment and poverty, resulting in a painful experience of precarization of life and loss of rights for the popular sectors, at the same time as in multiple processes of resistance and social mobilization. Based on an ethnographic study on the processes of construction of hegemony, this presentation focuses on two key conflict nuclei - the pension reform and labor measures - to explore the redefinitions of the state, the forms of governmentality in progress, the displacements and realignments political, resources and forms of resistance, the scope and limits of social mobilization, and the processes of repression of protest and militarization of daily life.