Argentina Since the 2001 Crisis: Recovering the Past, Reclaiming the Future

by C. Levey (Editor), D. Ozarow (Editor), C. Wylde (Editor)

Overview

This timely and interdisciplinary volume analyzes the many impacts of and contrasting responses to the Argentine political, economic, and social crises of 2001-02. Chapters offer original theoretical models and examine the relationship between political, cultural, economic, and societal spheres.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137434258
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	07/17/2014
Series:	Studies of the Americas
Edition description:	2014
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Colin Lewis, London School of Economics, UK Cara Levey, University College Cork, Ireland Daniel Ozarow, Middlesex University Business School, UK Christopher Wylde; Richmond the American International University, UK Cecilia T. Lanata Briones, London School of Economics UK Rubén M. Lo Vuolo, Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Politicas Publicas (Ciepp), Buenos Aires, Argentina Miguel A. Rivera Quiñones, University of Sussex, UK Olga Onuch, University of Oxford, UK Federico M. Rossi, Tulane University, USA Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, University of Bath, UK Heike Schaumberg, University of Manchester, UK Maristella Svampa, CONICET (National Centre for Scientific and Technical Research),/ Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Argentina Ignacio Aguiló, University of Manchester, UK Saskia Fischer, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Cecilia Dinardi, City University, London, UK Ezequiel Adamovsky, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Table of Contents

Foreword; Colin Lewis Introduction: Revisiting the Argentine Crisis a Decade on: Changes and Continuities?; Cara Levey, Daniel Ozarow, Christopher Wylde PART I: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF (POST) CRISIS ARGENTINA 1. Continuity and Change in the Interpretation of Upheaval: Re-examining the Argentine Crisis of 2001-02; Christopher Wylde, 2. Post-Convertibility Growth in Argentina: Long Term Dynamics and Limits, 1960-2008; Cecilia T. Lanata Briones and Rubén M. Lo Vuolo 3. Macro-economic Governance in Post-neoliberal Argentina and the Relentless Power of TNCs: The Case of the Soy Complex; Miguel A. Rivera Quiñones PART II: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND MASS MOBILISATION BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER QUE SE VAYAN TODOS 4.'It's the economy, stupid', Or is it? The Role of Political Crises in Mass Mobilisation: The Case of Argentina in 2001; Olga Onuch 5. Disagreement and Hope: the Hidden Transcripts in the Grammar of Political Recovery Post-crisis Argentina; Ana Cecilia Dinerstein 6. Argentina since 2001: From Spontaneous Uprising to 'transition', or a Crisis Intermezzo?; Heike Schaumberg 7. Revisiting Argentina 2001-2013: From 'Que se vayan todos! to the Peronist Decade; Maristella Svampa PART III: CULTURAL AND MEDIA RESPONSES TO THE 2001 CRISIS 8. Tropical Buenos Aires: Representations of Race in Argentine Literature during the 2001 Crisis and Aftermath; Ignacio Aguiló 9. D esalambrando el aire: Communication and Indigenous Struggles in Post-crisis Patagonia; Saskia Fischer 10. Assembling the Past, Performing the Nation: The Argentine Bicentenary and Regaining of Public Space in the Aftermath of the 2001 Crisis; Cecilia Dinardi Afterword; Ezequiel Adamovsky

Editorial Reviews

'This important volume, a truly inter-disciplinary effort that combines micro and macro levels of analysis, makes a crucial contribution to the understanding and explanation of political, economic, and cultural transformations and continuities in post-2001 Argentina.'
-Javier Auyero, Sociology Department, University of Texas at Austin, USA

"This is an important book, which makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the impact of the 2001 crisis in Argentina. The volume presents a thorough exploration of the different dimensions of the crisis - economic, social, political, and cultural - and provides a multidisciplinary analysis, successfully integrating essays with different methodological perspectives. The most complete and up-to-date analysis of the multiple meanings of the 2001 crisis, this book is essential reading for those interested in understanding Argentina's recent past." - José Antonio Sánchez Román, Department of History, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

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