INVESTIGADORES
SOCOLOFF Ivana Claudia
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Privatization of Land in Argentina
Autor/es:
IVANA SOCOLOFF
Lugar:
Sao Paulo
Reunión:
Congreso; FINGEO; 2019
Institución organizadora:
Universidad de Sao Paulo
Resumen:
In recent works, Christophers (2017, 2018) draw attention to the need to address the study of the financialization of the state through the lens of how national states are treating their own 'public estate'. Complementing other works on the public disposition of rural land and on the selling of public land by local states, the author wonders if national states are treating their own land as a financial asset and with what implications. Following his inquiries, we aim to contribute to the study of the financialization, by presenting an analysis of the way in which Argentine state has treated its public land in the period 2015-2018. Our questions arise from the fact that for the first time in history, the national state has deployed a policy of privatization and centralization of the management of all public estate, possible only through the incorporation of new technologies. To explore these inquiries we base our study on an analysis of more than 500 regulations, observations, interviews and archival work that allowed the identification of modalities of land treatment and motivations. We argue that national authorities have privatized land under the premise that it has no ?use value? for public institutions, making it enter the market so that its ?exchange value? is exploited by national and international financial agents. In such a way that, to us, financialization has penetrated the logic of State agencies, which are treating land as another asset class. However, and as a concomitant process, this logic has not annulled other traditional ones of control and government over the national territory through land.