POL305Y1 Lecture Notes - Eduardo Duhalde, Fernando De La Rúa, Eduardo Da Silva
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Describes a polanyian backlash in latin america: polanyian backlash. Liberals worship the altar of the market main organizing force in society. Market society: an order that subordinates political and social institutions to the principles of the market economy. Polanyian backlash: efforts to construct a market society inevitably generates a reaction by social forces for protection from the market. Eduardo silva (2009) challenging neoliberalism in latin america . December 2001 a number of presidential falls. By november, unemployment was at 20%, rate of poverty around (possibly exceeding) 40% Dec 1st gov"t pushed through a range of wildly unpopular banking restrictions. Dec 15 grocery store lootings, violent protests, riots. Dec 20-resignations over the state of economy, the protests, What happened in 2001 was really a civil society coup. Town revolts (aka glocal riots havier arroyo) Glocal the intersection between global and local dynamics, whereby citizens think globally but act locally. Location santiago del eastero (1993), corrientes (1999)
