The Poor's Struggle for Political Incorporation: The Piquetero Movement in Argentina

FEDERICO M. ROSSI

Cambridge University Press

Lugar: Cambridge/New York; Año: 2017 p. 405

978-110-711-011-3

This book proposes a theory for analyzing the popular sectors' quest for inclusion in what Rossi calls the "second wave of incorporation" in Latin America. The waves of incorporation are historical processes of prolonged struggle between socioeconomic and political groups for the expansion or reduction of the socio-political arena. The first incorporation was a corporatist process that involved the mobilization ofunions or peasants (1930s-1950s). The second incorporation was developed from the inherited institutions and actors of the first incorporation. However, this second wave was territorial in nature, since neoliberal disincorporation dissolved or weakened the corporatist mechanisms for the arrangement of interests and the main actor that emerged to mobilize the claims forreincorporation were the territorialized movements of excluded poor (1990s-2010s). Rossi formulates an innovative conceptualization and relational analysis of the role played by the development of strategies to study macro-historical dynamics such as reincorporation without structuralist or rationalist determinisms. This perspective is applied to the relational historical study of the role of the main movement struggling for socio-political reincorporation in Argentina: the piquetero movement. The Argentine case is then compared with the experiences of Bolivia and Brazil, proposing trajectories of reincorporation.