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people requires a comprehensive institutional
response. Key elements of such a response must
recognize the basic human right to food and will
need to address the fundamental cause of food
insecurity in Argentina: the legacy of poverty
created by a decade of neoliberal economic
policies.
Jorge Ginieniewicz
New Social Movements and Old Structures:
Post-Neo-Liberal Tendencies in Argentina
Key Words: new social movements, learning
processes, neoliberalism, Argentina
In the 1990s, Argentina adopted a strict
neoliberal model, which led the country to high
unemployment, low wages, inequitable distribution
and a fall in investment in public education. In
Argentina, in December 2001, people realized
that that model was exhausted and new social
movements took the centre of the scene. This
paper analyzes the characteristics of these
movements in that country as well as the learning
processes and the political consequences for
Argentineans.
Dario Azzellini
The Bolivar process: constituting power,
participation and autonomy
Key Words: Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, Bolivar
revolution, Latin America, new social movements
The inauguration of Hugo Chávez as president
of Venezuela in 1999 prompted two parallel
processes: re-institutionalization and social
transformation from bellow. On the one hand we
therefore witness an attempt by the institutions
of the state to gain legitimacy as well as efficiency
while ‡ and on the other hand ‡ we can also see
transformation occurring on a social level. Both
processes are intertwined; they complement each
other; in part, however, they are also mutually
exclusive. This process of transformation draws
upon the anti-colonial heritage of Simón Bolivar
and can be dubbed the “Bolivar process”. The
new relationship between the state, social
movements and base organizations has brought
about a new constitution and wide discussion on
possible changes, numerous projects. Many
activists have left the social movements to join
various institutions, a move that has weakened
some of the former. The state and government do
not force any organizational models upon society
and Venzuela can be characterized as having
numerous different organizational forms and
themes that contribute to the process of
transformation.
Gaπper Kralj
The political life of the disappeared:
narratives of rebellion in Guatemala
Key Words: disappeared, narratives of rebellion,
new social movements, HIJOS, Guatemala,
Latin America
This article opens with the contextualization
of Guatemala and then proceeds with an
ethnographical reflection from an abandoned
plantation from the east of the country. This
serves as an example as how to think power in
extreme forms of the neoliberal offensive of
capital. The second part of the article then
focuses on possible ways out, primarily upon the
aesthetic-political practices of the relatives of the
disappeared (desaparecidos) during the long
standing military conflict in the country. A case
study concerns HIJOS as a meeting place where
the children and daughters of the disappeared
have unified their personal histories into a
narrative of a whole generation of social rebels.
Through this they gradually transformed
themselves into collective able of political life,
the public reading of reality and thinking the world
in terms of their own image.