The IN3's Urban Transformation and Global Change Laboratory (TURBA Lab) research group is pleased to invite you to the webinar "Hacia una espacialización de la crítica de las políticas públicas. El caso de la política económica en una región argentina" [Towards the spatialization of the criticism of public policies. The case of an Argentinian region's economic policy], which will be presented by Gerardo Iraci, a social sciences doctoral candidate at the University of Buenos Aires who is currently participating in the TURBA Lab research group as a visiting student.
Venue
Online
When
16/04/2021 12.30h
Organized by
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, IN3's TURBA Lab research group
Program
This seminar forms part of the Cycle of Seminars on Urban Transformation and Global Change.
Abstract
Tierra del Fuego is a province in the south of Argentina that since the 1970s has implemented a regional economic promotion system. Under this regulatory framework, companies are encouraged to relocate their activities to the region's two cities (Ushuaia and Río Grande).
In my presentation I analyse the role of the economic promotion public policy in place in Tierra del Fuego, which enables the reproduction of individual capital in the context of competition in the global market that led to the new division of labour. I will theoretically and empirically investigate this aspect based on a re-discussion of Neil Brenner's seminal work, New State Spaces. This agenda of new state spaces will be subjected to a Marxist criticism of public policies. In Europe, the political scientist Ulrich Brand argued that Marxist criticism theoretically focussed on the analysis of polity and politics, but the same was not true of policy. It is in this sense that my presentation will seek to further the theoretical developments of the Marxist criticism of public policies as a trial-and-error process in which the correspondence between the reproduction of capitalist social relations and public policies is an uncertain process, combining them with the agenda of new state spaces. In other words, making progress towards the spatialization of the criticism of public policies based on the economic promotion that enabled processes of de/industrialization in Tierra del Fuego's industry from 1972 to 2021.
Gerardo Iraci
He is a social sciences doctoral candidate at the University of Buenos Aires. In his doctoral thesis (a historical ethnography on industrial workers in the current province of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina) he discusses economic and political geography and class anthropology from the perspective of the Frankfurt School's Critical Theory and Theodor Adorno's critical account of the political economy. He currently forms part of the IN3's TURBA Lab research group as a visiting student.
To participate in this session, please contact larguellesr@uoc.edu.