¡<i>Que se Vayan Todos</i>! Popular Insurrection and the <i>Asambleas Barriales</i> in Argentina

Dinerstein, Ana Cecilia

doi:10.1111/1470-9856.00072

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“…For a moment, Argentinians across social classes seemed united, manifestly under the slogan ‘piquetes y cacerolas, la lucha es una sola' (‘pickets and pots, the struggle is the same'; Gordillo, ). The protests, writes Dinerstein (: 192–3), affirmed ‘a power to say “Enough!”'. The spontaneous neighborhood assemblies, in particular, expressed the widespread rejection of vertical forms of representation (Dinerstein, ; Villalón, ; for a study of Rosario's asambleas barriales ; see Ford, ).…”

Section: Participatory Budgeting In Rosariomentioning

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Reasons of Power: Explaining Non‐cooptation in Participatory Budgeting

Holdo¹

2016

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Research on the use of participatory budgeting (PB) in urban politics has, perhaps not surprisingly, found that PB participants are often coopted by the government. From a realist perspective, however, it is more surprising that cooptation does not always occur and the mechanisms of non‐cooptation are still not well understood. Previous research has often explained successful outcomes in terms of the ideology of incumbents or the strength of social movements demanding participation. In contrast to both these explanations, this article suggests that an important part is played by the political interest of political elite actors in the independence of PB participants from the government. Presenting the case of PB in Rosario, Argentina, the article finds that three conditions made it rational for political actors not to coopt participants. First, a legitimacy crisis created incentives to invest in a new field of state–civil society interaction. Second, state actors involved in the creation of the field came to invest in the meanings and values of the field. Third, the field of PB could produce legitimacy for the government by being perceived as independent. The article reasons that we can expect these mechanisms of non‐cooptation to be at work in much the same way in other places under similar circumstances.

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Section: Participatory Budgeting In Rosariomentioning

confidence: 99%

Reasons of Power: Explaining Non‐cooptation in Participatory Budgeting

Holdo¹

2016

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…As a result of the societal upheaval mentioned earlier in this article, a largescale popular movement aimed at taking control of urban affairs emerged for the first time in Buenos Aires (Ouviña 2002, Dinerstein 2003. Shortly after the violent demonstrations of 21 and 22 December 2001, massive grassroots gatherings were spontaneously constituted throughout the city under the name of 'neighbourhood assemblies' (asambleas barriales).…”

Section: A Lack Of Participative Culturementioning

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Transnational urban policies: ‘relocating’ Spanish and Brazilian models of urban planning in Buenos Aires

Crot

2010

Urban Research & Practice

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This article examines the transnationalization of urban policies by analysing the adoption of two 'foreign' models of participatory urban planning in the city of Buenos Aires. Both schemes are modelled on internationally acclaimed experiments: Barcelona's Strategic Plan and Porto Alegre's Participatory Budget. In Buenos Aires, however, these policy transfers have failed to produce the remarkable results for which their Spanish and Brazilian exemplars have been internationally praised. Traditional accounts of policy transfers ponder on the institutional compatibility between imported schemes and host environments. The author argues that these works tend to overlook the significance of the stochastic conditions presiding over the adoption of particular policy models in different cities. She proposes to deviate from traditional approaches by seeking an explanation for the poor results of the schemes in Buenos Aires in (a) the contextual conditions framing their adoption in the Argentine capital, and (b) the circumstances surrounding their emergence in Barcelona and Porto Alegre.

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“…("Get them all to leave!") enabled the creation of neighborhood assemblies (asambleas barriales) with a clear anti-institutional yet political ethos (Dinerstein, 2003). Clubs became places to debate general politics as well as to think about and solve local problems without state intervention.…”

Section: From Political Collapse To Private Self-regulation (2001-2007)mentioning

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Between History and Passion: The Legitimacy of Social Clubs in the Province of Buenos Aires (2001–2007)

Casagrande

2017

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In the last few decades the concept of self-regulation accompanied the process of dismantling the welfare state. In this context, in central countries-Europe and North America-the importance given to private regulations versus public action increased, thus requiring new mechanisms of legitimacy. To this end, appeals to the principles of economy and technical efficiency to legitimate private regulations have been made by several researchers. However, these principles acquired a negative view in Argentina because they were used to use to legitimate processes that led to various crises, especially taking into consideration the neo-liberal experience of the 1990s. Against this historical background, this paper seeks to show a particular case of legitimizing the self-regulation of non-state organizations (social clubs) by using classic topoi, which had been historically used to legitimize state action. In order to do so, this text focuses on the analysis of "Luna de Avellaneda" Act of 2007, by which the government of Buenos Aires sought to legitimize the self-regulation of clubs appealing to the classical values of democracy, participation, and solidarity. For this, the historical experience of the Argentinean political community will be observed from the perspective of the history of these clubs, thus recovering the social function they played in the diverse political and economic crises.

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¡Que se Vayan Todos! Popular Insurrection and the Asambleas Barriales in Argentina

Cited by 65 publications

References 6 publications

Reasons of Power: Explaining Non‐cooptation in Participatory Budgeting

Reasons of Power: Explaining Non‐cooptation in Participatory Budgeting

Transnational urban policies: ‘relocating’ Spanish and Brazilian models of urban planning in Buenos Aires

Between History and Passion: The Legitimacy of Social Clubs in the Province of Buenos Aires (2001–2007)

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