Popular Demobilization, Agribusiness Mobilization, and the Agrarian Boom in Post-Neoliberal Argentina

Lapegna, Pablo

doi:10.5195/jwsr.2015.523

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“…232–241). The commodity boom, especially the expansion of soybean (and sugar cane until 2013), provided the context for a contradictory convergence of interests between small landed producers, unionized rural workers, and agribusiness (see Lapegna, ).…”

Section: Neo‐developmentalism: Interpreting Contradictions Exploringmentioning

confidence: 99%

The agrarian political economy of left‐wing governments in Latin America: Agribusiness, peasants, and the limits of neo‐developmentalism

Vergara-Camus

Kay

2017

Journal of Agrarian Change

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This paper concludes this special issue. It draws on the findings of the individual contributions and provides a comparison of the agrarian policies of left-wing governments in Latin America. We identify common trends and offer an explanation of why these governments did not change the agricultural model in the direction of food sovereignty, but continued to heavily support agribusiness while redirecting some resources to peasant and family producers. They improved the living conditions of the rural poor, mostly through populist anti-poverty and social protection programmes financed by the commodity boom. They expanded programmes to integrate small farmers into commodity chains and improved the working conditions of rural wage labourers, but did not carry out a redistributive agrarian reform. They instead continued to support agribusiness with numerous policies and measures. We argue that these governments did not curb the power of the dominant rural classes because these are highly intertwined with capital, making them part of a coalesced bourgeoisie that occupies key positions in the state.Leftist governments did not have a real agenda of social transformation or a strategy to tackle the rentier nature of the state.Contradictorily, their policies furthered peasant differentiation thereby weakening the previous alliance of rural subaltern classes.

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Section: Neo‐developmentalism: Interpreting Contradictions Exploringmentioning

confidence: 99%

The agrarian political economy of left‐wing governments in Latin America: Agribusiness, peasants, and the limits of neo‐developmentalism

Vergara-Camus

Kay

2017

Journal of Agrarian Change

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“…However, other sectors of society came into conflict with the Kirchner administrations. For example, after the government raised export taxes in 2008, agribusinesses organised a series of intense protests, which affected interstate traffic in the country for months (Lapegna, 2015). Policies such as currency controls and import bans were also widely unpopular among the urban middle and upper classes.…”

Section: Argentina Since the Great Crisismentioning

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“…An early example of this diffusion took place when environmentalists cut off border crossings to protest the installation of pulp mills along the river between Argentina and Uruguay. A more recent case was the enthusiastic adoption of highway closures by landowners during the 2008 conflict over export taxes (Lapegna, 2015).…”

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The Persistent Influence of December 2001: Collective Action in 21st‐Century Argentina

Perez

Sobering

2022

Bull Latin American Res

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The protests of December 2001 in Argentina were the most visible manifestation of a larger cycle of contention, which continues to have a substantial influence on the forms, tactics and goals of social movements throughout the country. This paper provides a critical overview of these lasting effects. In particular, we focus on three areas where the consequences of the crisis for collective action have been particularly strong: performative politics, coalition‐building, and institutional support for grassroots networks. We conclude by reflecting on the implications for participatory democracy and the consolidation of a highly engaged civil society.

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“…Roadblocks were incorporated into the repertoire of contention in Argentina by piquetero organisations protesting against neoliberal policies. The farmers' roadblocks, however, appropriated this action to oppose the government's intervention in the economy (Lapegna, 2015). The ‘anti‐politics’ messages of 2008–2009 also echoed that of ‘que se vayan todos’ in 2001.…”

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Rural Mobilisation and Agrarian Political Economy in Argentina, 2001–2020

Lapegna

Palmisano

2022

Bull Latin American Res

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In this article, we reconstruct the mobilisations of rural actors both from ‘below’ and from ‘above’ and their connections to Argentina's agrarian political economy between 2001 and 2020. We divide the analysis into three periods and review key protest events and the actions of movements and organisations, paying special attention to two dimensions. First, we consider how rural movements and organisations engaged with institutional politics and the state. Second, we analyse the collective identifications and claims at the basis of coalitions forged within and beyond the rural sector.

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Popular Demobilization, Agribusiness Mobilization, and the Agrarian Boom in Post-Neoliberal Argentina

Cited by 4 publications

References 43 publications

The agrarian political economy of left‐wing governments in Latin America: Agribusiness, peasants, and the limits of neo‐developmentalism

The agrarian political economy of left‐wing governments in Latin America: Agribusiness, peasants, and the limits of neo‐developmentalism

The Persistent Influence of December 2001: Collective Action in 21st‐Century Argentina

Rural Mobilisation and Agrarian Political Economy in Argentina, 2001–2020

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