INVESTIGADORES
ROSSI Federico Matias
artículos
Título:
Conceptualising and tracing the increased territorialisation of politics: insights from Argentina
Autor/es:
ROSSI, FEDERICO M.
Revista:
Third World Quarterly
Editorial:
Taylor & Francis
Referencias:
Año: 2019 vol. 40 p. 815 - 837
ISSN:
0143-6597
Resumen:
The territorialisation of politics is a crucial transformation in state-society relations that has implications on how contemporary politics works. Defined here as the dispute for the physical control of space, be it a municipality, province or portion of land, within one or more politically constituted entities. It does not mean the emergence of a new regime type, but the process through which the territory re-emerges as a new cleavage after neoliberal reforms and authoritarian regimes have weakened/dissolved neo-corporatist arrangements for the resolution of socio-political conflicts in society. It is a cleavage because central political divisions are produced as a result of the physical encounter of or distance between political actors and of the dispute for the control of a territory for sociopolitical goals and causes that are not always territorially defined. Departing from this definition, I also raise potential explanatory hypotheses for the transformations that favoured this transformation in Argentina.