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In Search of Alternatives: The Making of Grassroots Politics and Power in Argentina
Author(s) -
SCHAUMBERG HEIKE
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/j.1470-9856.2008.00275.x
Subject(s) - grassroots , subaltern , hegemony , populism , politics , state (computer science) , power (physics) , latin americans , socialism , political economy , sociology , political science , law , computer science , communism , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics
This article analyses ethnographically the reconfigurations of the state and relations of power through their dynamic interactions with subaltern alternatives that emerged in the 2001 uprising in Argentina. In this regard, it counters influential interpretations of these events articulated within John Holloway’s framework of ‘anti‐power’, which ignores the reconstruction of the state, and rank and file trade unionism. The article concludes that intensified class and political struggles in the region offer new spaces for contesting hegemonic reinventions of populism and ‘top‐down’ socialism in Latin America.