The Unemployed Movement in Argentina: Between the collective management of neoliberal policies and the collective management of life
Abstract
In this article I analyze the field of relations that opened with the unemployed movement in Argentina. Based on an ethnography about the extraordinary moments of the protest and the rhythm of everyday life, I describe the languages for the controversy and the places available for collective movements. In addition, I address the languages of the struggle to consider how risk experiences found collective practices of containment, care and affection. I contend that the unemployed movement turned the unemployed into subjects of neoliberal policies, as it began to collectively manage conditional income transfer programs with which the State responded to the mobilization. However, this link was overwhelmed by containment practices that were centered on life. With this, I intend to contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between social movements and the State and to debates about autonomy.
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