RDEE tiene por objetivo recuperar y actualizar el debate sobre el desarrollo, el Estado y el espacio, para revalorizarlo y tributar en él, pero también con un sentido superador y una clara intención de actualizarlo en función de las transformaciones acaecidas en el marco de la emergencia de una nueva fase de desarrollo capitalista.
Thesis Review: State Capacities and Sectoral Policies in Science, Technology, and Innovation. An Analysis of the Trajectory of the Argentine Sectoral Fund (Argentina, 2010-2023).
<pre id="tw-target-text" class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" dir="ltr" tabindex="-1" role="text" data-placeholder="Traducción" data-ved="2ahUKEwiRr_in3-iRAxWsPrkGHSMmKowQ3ewLegQIDRAW" aria-label="Texto traducido: Title Thesis Review: State Capacities and Sectoral Policies in Science, Technology, and Innovation. An Analysis of the Trajectory of the Argentine Sectoral Fund (Argentina, 2010-2023). Keywords state capacities, science and technology Abstract This thesis analyzes the sectoral science, technology, and innovation (STI) policies and instruments promoted through the Argentine Sectoral Fund (FONARSEC) between 2010 and 2023. It adopts a dynamic and relational approach to the state capacities involved in their design and implementation, understood as configurations that are updated in the interaction between state resources (bureaucratic, economic-financial, and organizational) and historical trajectories, political orientations, internal dynamics, and links with social and productive actors. Details (English) Edit Title None provided Keywords None provided Abstract">This thesis analyzes the sectoral science, technology, and innovation (STI) policies and instruments promoted through the Argentine Sectoral Fund (FONARSEC) between 2010 and 2023. It adopts a dynamic and relational approach to the state capacities involved in their design and implementation, understood as configurations that are updated in the interaction between state resources (bureaucratic, economic-financial, and organizational) and historical trajectories, political orientations, internal dynamics, and links with social and productive actors.
Copyright (c) 2025 Matías Michailov Martínez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Copyright (c) 2025 Andrés Bainotti https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Review: Economic Geopolitics of Global Transformation: Challenges for Latin America* by Víctor Ramiro Fernández
Interpreting large-scale social processes involving macro-regions over relatively long periods and at a deep structural level presents a true challenge for the social sciences. It is probably one of the most complex issues, especially when these processes are interpreted at the very edge of the present. In this case, Víctor Ramiro Fernández's *Economic Geopolitics* is an attempt to interpret the present, seeking to capture the structures of a movement in full development.
Copyright (c) 2025 Ignacio Trucco https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Global Neoliberal Crisis and Populist Passive Revolution in México
This article aims to provide a general characterization of the populism of the 4T in Mexico from a global perspective. To achieve this, we draw on Gramsci’s concept of passive revolution to outline a generic characterization of populism as political and social movements that are part of hegemonic projects, which seek to materialize through the seizure of power at specific historical moments. The current phase of capitalist development is considered as a referential framework, with the neoliberal path as the predominant—though not the only—mode of entrepreneurship adopted by most countries, including Mexico, and its subsequent crisis. These factors are seen as the conditions that have given rise to new forms of international populism and the 4T’s populism, both as attempts to resolve the neoliberal crisis. After analyzing the 4T as a populist passive revolution that seeks to resolve the crisis of the neoliberal path in Mexico through the transformation of the State in a restricted sense—i.e., without productive-social transformation—it is concluded that the loss of the State’s intellectual, institutional, and financial capacities prevents it from generating the general conditions for an accumulation based on knowledge and the exploitation of the specificities of backwardness to promote social development under current historical conditions. Likewise, the concept of passive revolution must be theoretically developed to fully account for international populisms and that of the 4T in Mexico.
Copyright (c) 2025 Sergio Ordóñez, Paty Aidé Montiel Martínez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
This article explores how food has been studied within the field of geography, focusing on two authors who have dedicated themselves to this topic: Josué de Castro and Max Sorre. It is based on the dissertation “O lugar do alimentos no pensamento geográfico: uma análise a partir de Max Sorre e de Josué de Castro,” defended in September 2021 at UFES (Federal University of Espírito Santo). Josué de Castro is a Brazilian physician and geographer who, since the 1940s, has studied hunger through his research on food. Max Sorre is a classical French geographer, heir to the ideas of Paul Vidal de la Blache, author of, among other works, “Les Fondements de la géographie humaine.” Sorre concluded his geographical studies with “L’Homme sur la Terre: traité de géographie humaine” (Man on Earth: A Treatise on Human Geography), incorporating food and the geography of food into several of his studies, as well as the topic of hunger, which had been introduced to the scientific world by Josué de Castro.Based on documentary research, bibliographic readings, and interviews, the importance of the topic of food is demonstrated, especially in an era prior to the revolution in information and communication technologies, the Green Revolution, and the post-Cold War period, marked by a significant increase in food production and global paradigm shifts. The text argues for the need for true interdisciplinarity and the humanization of the humanities, as exemplified by these two humanist geographers.Its main objective is to share the contributions of Josué de Castro and Max Sorre in French, to better understand the problems they observed and analyzed, as well as the continuity of their ideas after their deaths. He concludes that the issue remains relevant and requires ongoing efforts to eliminate the scourge already denounced by Castro in the first three-quarters of the 20th century, which continues to devastate, both directly and covertly, a large part of humanity.Keywords: Josué de Castro, Max Sorre, food, hunger.
This article explores how food has been studied within the field of geography, focusing on two authors who have dedicated themselves to this topic: Josué de Castro and Max Sorre. It is based on the dissertation “O lugar do alimentos no pensamento geográfico: uma análise a partir de Max Sorre e de Josué de Castro,” defended in September 2021 at UFES (Federal University of Espírito Santo). Josué de Castro is a Brazilian physician and geographer who, since the 1940s, has studied hunger through his research on food. Max Sorre is a classical French geographer, heir to the ideas of Paul Vidal de la Blache, author of, among other works, “Les Fondements de la géographie humaine.” Sorre concluded his geographical studies with “L’Homme sur la Terre: traité de géographie humaine” (Man on Earth: A Treatise on Human Geography), incorporating food and the geography of food into several of his studies, as well as the topic of hunger, which had been introduced to the scientific world by Josué de Castro. Based on documentary research, bibliographic readings, and interviews, the importance of the topic of food is demonstrated, especially in an era prior to the revolution in information and communication technologies, the Green Revolution, and the post-Cold War period, marked by a significant increase in food production and global paradigm shifts. The text argues for the need for true interdisciplinarity and the humanization of the humanities, as exemplified by these two humanist geographers. Its main objective is to share the contributions of Josué de Castro and Max Sorre in French, to better understand the problems they observed and analyzed, as well as the continuity of their ideas after their deaths. He concludes that the issue remains relevant and requires ongoing efforts to eliminate the scourge already denounced by Castro in the first three-quarters of the 20th century, which continues to devastate, both directly and covertly, a large part of humanity.
Copyright (c) 2025 Ana Letícia Espolador Leitão https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
The Glyphosate Assemblage: Herbicides, Uneven Development, and Chemical Geographies of Ubiquity.
The ubiquity of chemicals demands new ways of thinking about human-nature assemblages. This article proposes a dialogue between agrarian political economy, critical value chain research, and chemical geographies, through a case study of the world's most widely used agrochemical: glyphosate. In the 1980s, glyphosate triumphed as a benign biocide that promised both safety and effectiveness. This construct enabled a capitalist agricultural assemblage characterized by chemical omnipresence, first as a chemical replacement for mechanized farming and, since the 1990s, as the chemical input for genetically modified seed packages. The ubiquity that characterizes the glyphosate assemblage is also a geography of uneven development encompassing shifting business, political, and trade networks. A central, though largely overlooked, aspect of this assemblage since 2000 is the unchecked expansion of second- and third-tier generic pesticide producers, particularly in China, for whom glyphosate is part of a series of actions to renew and update their development strategy. Currently, glyphosate formulation faces unprecedented challenges due to weed resistance and health controversies. Whether and how this assemblage stabilizes again will depend on the complex environmental and developmental challenges of chemical agriculture and the widespread use of chemicals, highlighting the need for a transdisciplinary dialogue that can navigate these domains.
Copyright (c) 2025 Marion Werner, Christian Berndt, Becky Mansfield https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Feeding Power: Food Through the Prism of Geopolitics
<pre id="tw-target-text" class="tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta" dir="ltr" tabindex="-1" role="text" data-placeholder="Traducción" data-ved="2ahUKEwjQydbgq-iRAxXvqZUCHf8vOiUQ3ewLegQIDRAW" aria-label="Texto traducido: Feeding Power: Food Through the Prism of Geopolitics While English-speaking specialists in international relations use the word "power" to refer to both power and capacity ("le pouvoir et la puissance"), French political science distinguishes between them. The former refers to the actions of states within their sovereign territory, while the latter describes the capabilities they maintain in their relations with the outside world. While power immediately resonates with the issue of food—the need for food being at the heart of a country's social contract—the association between food and power, with its connotation of extroversion, may seem less obvious, especially since power more readily rhymes with the military.">While English-speaking specialists in international relations use the word "power" to refer to both power and capacity ("le pouvoir et la puissance"), French political science distinguishes between them. The former refers to the actions of states within their sovereign territory, while the latter describes the capabilities they maintain in their relations with the outside world. While power immediately resonates with the issue of food—the need for food being at the heart of a country's social contract—the association between food and power, with its connotation of extroversion, may seem less obvious, especially since power more readily rhymes with the military.
Copyright (c) 2025 Pierre Blanc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
China's strategy in the agri-food sector (2008-2025): implications for Argentina
The objective of this article is to shed light on China's strategy in the agri-food sector, addressing both the specific forms it has taken and how it appears in planning instruments. This is done using a primarily qualitative methodology, employing an inductive-deductive approach based on primary and secondary sources. Furthermore, we seek to reflect on the implications and future challenges that this strategy entails for Argentina. To this end, we reconstruct Chinese investments in Argentina's agri-food sector and the operations of Chinese companies, as well as the guidelines established by various Chinese state agencies for the sector, analyzing the correspondence between these two dimensions. Among the main findings, we establish that the deployment of Chinese investments in the agri-food sector is not a spontaneous phenomenon, but rather the result of a coordinated strategy outlined by centralized state planning. In turn, a dual strategy was detected on the part of China, which combines intervention in the global food market in order to ensure imports, with policies aimed at food self-sufficiency, which raises questions about the future of the Sino-Argentine relationship.
Copyright (c) 2025 Gonzalo Sanz Cerbino, Mariel De Vita, Lucila Melendi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Food Proximity and the Global Crisis of Local Food Systems: The Relational Dimension of the Human Right to Food in Contexts of Commodification of Essential Resources
The internationalization of food marketing circuits, the increasing industrialization of agriculture, and the globalization of food chains have brought about structural transformations that directly affect local food systems. These transformations manifest in various forms of malnutrition, biodiversity loss, erosion of food-related cultural practices, and the detachment of food production and consumption from territorial contexts. This article examines food proximity as an analytical category to describe and understand experiences aimed at reconstructing the links between people, territories, and food systems from a socio-ecological perspective. In this framework, it proposes a reinterpretation of the human right to food (HRtF) through its relational dimension, articulating the concept of food adequacy across three dimensions: existential, nutritional, and relational. Finally, it analyzes the effects of the commodification of essential resources —such as land, water, seeds, and knowledge— on the material and symbolic relationships that sustain food systems, producing conditions of estrangement that undermine the effective realization of the HRtF in its relational aspect. In this context, the article explores criteria and experiences that may guide transitions toward fairer, more sustainable, and territorially grounded forms of food organization, where proximity emerges as a structuring principle of situated and ecosystemically sensitive practices.
Copyright (c) 2025 Ana María Bonet https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
The strategic protein. Global dependence and regional changes in the production and use of soy protein for animal feed.
This paper aims to estimate and briefly describe the evolution of the production and use of plant protein, particularly soy protein, for animal feed, and to characterize different regions of the world according to their degree of dependence on imported protein. The paper evaluates the evolution of these regional dependencies on a global scale (considering the United Nations geo-schema) over a set of key years that allow for a description of their trajectory: 1961 (the first statistical data available), 1979, 2001, 2013, and 2022. The goal is to acquire a more precise understanding of the external dependence of different regions on soy protein for animal feed and to observe the main changes in this area. The paper concludes by observing a geographical structure of relative positions around which common interests and dependency relationships arise, which can help to understand behaviors in the arena of international relations.
Copyright (c) 2025 Ignacio Trucco, María Valentina Locher, Martine Guibert https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
The productive expansion of soy in the Amazon: characterization of the impacts on intraregional inequalities in southeastern Pará
Latin America maintains a peripheral position in global capitalism, marked by productive specialization in raw materials and by economic and cultural dependence on the core countries of capitalism. In the Amazon, this relationship has a historical trajectory and, in the early twenty-first century, is characterized by the expansion of commodities such as cattle ranching and soybeans, positioning southeastern Pará as one of the vectors of the expansion of cultivated areas. This article analyzes how the expansion of soy is the result of “spurious productive deconcentration,” generating intraregional inequalities in the territories of southeastern Pará, particularly with regard to its expansion alongside the reduction of planting areas for other agricultural crops, with a focus on family farming. The research covers municipalities in the mesoregion of southeastern Pará, using data from the Municipal Agricultural Production (2006–2023) and the Northern Constitutional Financing Fund (2008–2022). The results indicate production homogenization, capital concentration, and pressure on preserved areas and traditional activities, confirming the persistence of a dependent development pattern with socio-environmental and territorial impacts.
Copyright (c) 2025 Rafael Gonçalves Gumiero, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Introduction. Geopolitics and geoeconomics of food in a changing world
Food is a central strategic axis of the international economic system due to its geopolitical and geoeconomic implications. The availability and price of food directly affect political stability, the capacity for capital accumulation, and international conflicts, among other factors. Added to this is a key scientific and technological dimension, which has enabled unprecedented productive expansions. Within this framework, South America and Latin America occupy a strategic position, marked by tensions, inequalities, and global disputes. Against the backdrop of these major issues, the Dossier entitled “Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of Food: Structural Relationships, Trends, and the Role of South America in the International Economic System” is presented. Its objective is to examine the global food system, structured across multiple scales and dimensions, paying particular attention to the role played by South America.
Copyright (c) 2025 Ignacio Trucco, María Valentina Locher https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Argentina’s Geoeconomic Risk as a Food Exporter: An Assessment Using the Product-Level Geoeconomic Risk Exposure Index (IEGP)
The paper analyzes the geoeconomic vulnerability of Argentina’s export basket in the context of increasing global geoeconomic fragmentation. To this end, it proposes and applies the “Product-Level Geoeconomic Risk Exposure Index” (IEGP), an original tool that combines economic variables—such as market relevance and concentration—with political-institutional variables concerning Argentina’s main trading partners and the key features of their bilateral relationships. The index is built on the premise that the use of trade policy for strategic purposes, and thus the likelihood of geopolitical disruption to trade flows, tends to arise when low bilateral institutionalization, high levels of ideological divergence, and a record of coercive behavior coincide. When these conditions occur in products that are both relevant and concentrated in a small number of markets, they generate significant vulnerability for international insertion. Applied to Argentina’s 2023 export basket, the IEGP helps identify 26 products with economic vulnerability, six of which present a high level of geoeconomic risk. The results show that Argentina’s specialization in food and agricultural products entails risks that go beyond the economic sphere, carrying direct geopolitical implications. The proposed approach allows for an integrated consideration of economic and foreign policy dimensions in designing the country’s international insertion strategy, providing an empirical basis for the anticipation and mitigation of risks in an increasingly unstable global environment.
Copyright (c) 2025 Julieta Zelicovich, Nicolás Sidicaro https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Reseña: El gran engaño. Como la industria de la consultoría debilita las empresas, infantiliza a los gobiernos y pervierte la economía. Mariana Mazzucato; Rosie Collington.
Las investigaciones sobre déficits en las capacidades estatales o sobre zonas grises normativas, que difuminan los contornos de lo formal y suponen relaciones clandestinas, han avanzado considerablemente en la descripción de dinámicas partidarias, en relaciones entre dirigencias estatales y empresas o, en otra agenda, en las características de la politicidad popular. Sin embargo, un actor relativamente omnipresente en el funcionamiento del Estado ha recibido una atención académica mucho menor: las consultoras. El gran engaño, de Mazzucato y Collington (ambas investigadoras del University College de Londres), invita a abandonar las justificaciones funcionales de la consultoría y rastrear sus efectos sobre el desempeño estatal y el debilitamiento en sus capacidades de intervención. El libro ofrece tanto un paneo introductorio por las dinámicas de las grandes empresas de consultoría a nivel global, una historización de su creciente rol como una serie de sugestivas hipótesis, que identifican un actor usualmente subvalorado en los análisis sobre políticas públicas y ciclos políticos.
Copyright (c) 2025 Javier Nuñez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Tourism urbanization as a transformation of the state space in Río de la Plata region. Urban policies in Punta del Este (Uruguay) in the 1970s.
Este artigo apresenta um diálogo entre a urbanização turística na costa atlântica uruguaia e a política territorial na reconfiguração do espaço estatal na região do Rio da Prata, particularmente a partir da década de 1970. O trabalho baseia-se numa revisão bibliográfica e documental. Para tanto, revisamos a discussão sobre o espaço estatal segundo Neil Brenner e as abordagens sobre o desenvolvimento do turismo como política urbana e territorial em nível internacional. São analisadas as principais transformações no planejamento urbano local durante um forte ciclo de expansão imobiliária (1974-1982) que coincide com o início da abertura e liberalização econômica em escala nacional. A hipótese é que a urbanização do turismo contribuiu, no caso uruguaio, para a transformação qualitativa do Estado e a geração de novos espaços estatais após o desmantelamento progressivo, iterativo e contextualmente interligado dos Estados de bem-estar.
Copyright (c) 2025 Leonardo Altmann Macchio https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
State, Institutional Activists, and Social Organizations: Social and Solidarity Economy Policies in the Municipality of Almirante Brown, Argentina (2019–2023).
The aim of this research is to analyze the processes of design and implementation of municipal Social and Solidarity Economy policies, focusing on the relationship established between state institutions and social organizations that emphasize territorial identity and support self-managed forms of work. The empirical reference is a case study in the Municipality of Almirante Brown, Buenos Aires, Argentina, during the period 2019-2023, observing the implementation of policies at the interfaces between state and non-state spaces where public managers and members of social organizations interact and operate. As a theoretical framework, we understand the state as an arena of conflicts and power relations. We engage with the concepts of institutional activists, the duality of field-level state agents, and government activism, which emphasizes conflicts within the state field. The research methodology involved the analysis of primary sources (semi-structured interviews, field observation) and secondary sources (academic literature, public documents, and official statistics). Among the results, we challenge the common assumption that simplistically separates the state sphere from that of social organizations, reducing their relationship to situations of co-optation or autonomy. Additionally, we observe how the relationships between public managers and organizations are activated in the field of policy design and implementation, as part of the conflicts and alliances among various groups within the public administration.
Copyright (c) 2025 Javier Ghibaudi, Ariel García https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
State territoriality and socio-spatial analysis: A critical and applied review of the TREL framework
This article examines the theoretical framework TPSN (territory, place, scale and network) developed by Jessop, Brenner, and Jones (2008) as an analytical tool in urban and regional studies. Based on a critical review of the specialized literature, its applicability in the analysis of urbanization, governance, and the restructuring of state space is evaluated. In the context of spatial turns in the social sciences, TREL emerges as a multidimensional approach that seeks to overcome one-dimensional views of space. The study situates its analysis within the tradition of critical materialism and radical geography, with references to authors such as Lefebvre, Harvey, and Smith. Methodologically, a theoretical analysis is employed, complemented by empirical case studies, including the port infrastructure of Buenos Aires, the teaching of urbanism through reflective cartography, and metropolitan planning in Greater Rosario. It is argued that TREL provides useful tools for examining socio-spatial relations but also presents limitations, such as the possible rigidity of its methodological structure and the risk of reifying spatial form. To address these issues, the integration of complementary approaches, such as Actor-Network Theory and the conception of scale as a process of embodiment, is discussed. In conclusion, TREL remains a valid approach for the study of state spatiality and urban reconfiguration, although adjustments are needed to capture the dynamism of social space in times of political, economic, and ecological transformation.
Copyright (c) 2025 Lucas Cardozo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
State, space and scale. An anthropological journey for the analysis of problems of governance
Based on a literature review, this paper aims to contribute to the reflections and discussions on qualitative approaches to the conceptualisation of state spatiality. Inspired by anthropological studies on the state, which have multiplied since the 1970s in the discipline, it seeks to account for the main debates on the scalar question and the state problem. These topics represent the two blocks of reflection in the text. The dialogue with anthropology in order to think about the state and the scalar derives from the power of this science to denaturalise social processes, specifically political problems. In this way, methodology and theory are knotted together in the text for reflection, paying special attention to ethnography as a methodological strategy. The results derive, then, from a literature review where perspectives on the state (Abrams, 2015; Mitchell, 2015; Gupta, 2015), problems of governance (Rose and Miller, 1992) and the scalar question produced in the neoliberal context (Brenner et. al., 2011) are brought into dialogue. We propose a methodological theoretical contribution that we consider useful for those who study situated processes that are traversed by the global dynamics of capital.
Copyright (c) 2025 Lucas Cardozo; María Florencia Marcos , Carlos Cowan Ros https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
The national and provincial state of Santa Fe and their capacities to promote the industrial sector: a theoretical-analytical proposal and an empirical study for the years 2020-2023.
This paper elaborates a theoretical framework to examine the configuration of the state and its capacities to drive the development of the industrial sector within the contemporary capitalist economy. The framework results from bringing into dialogue two perspectives on the state: the state-centric approach and the strategic-relational-spatial approach. Based on this contribution, the article analyzes the Argentine national state and the provincial state of Santa Fe during the period 2020–2023. The main findings of the empirical study reflect the limitations of the Argentine state, in its multiscalar organization, to effectively promote the industrial sector and foster development.
Copyright (c) 2025 María Jimena García Puente, Carolina Lauxmann , Marcos Valentinuz https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Towards a territorial analysis of the state in the context of metal mining. A study of Bajo de la Alumbrera in Catamarca and Veladero in San Juan, Argentina (1993-2019)
In Argentina, the geographic expansion of the global value chain of metalliferous mining by leaching was pioneered by the Bajo de la Alumbrera and Veladero deposits in the provinces of Catamarca and San Juan respectively, following the accession of both subnational state apparatuses to the national Mining Investment Law established in 1993. In this process, new scalar configurations (Swyngedouw, 2010), forms and relations of territorial political authority were produced. In this sense, the promotion of large-scale mining did not imply a withdrawal of the state, but rather a strong, socially and spatially selective state intervention, which privileged a scalar, normative and territorial infrastructural arrangement favourable to foreign direct investment in intensive exploitation for the massive export of mineral commodities. This paper proposes two interrelated objectives, in the context of the complexity of the analysis of the state in the context of globalization and the intensification of the multiple forms of synchronic relations which coexist between distant spaces. On the one hand, discussions and theoretical-methodological elements are recovered for a territorial analysis of the state from a relational, non-deterministic, contextualised and situated perspective. On the other hand, the role of the state is analysed in the cases of Bajo de la Alumbrera (1997-2018) and Veladero (ongoing since 2005). In this regard, we are particularly interested in identifying common features regarding the processes of state rescaling and the strategic state selectivity internalised in each extractivist regime.
Copyright (c) 2025 Santiago Petrocelli https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Research into state space: methods, techniques and analytical categories in Latin America
This dossier revisits a series of theoretical and methodological reflections on the notion of the state, placing particular emphasis on the processes of reconfiguration of its spatial dimension. In dialogue with theoretical approaches that seek to disubstantiate a set of key concepts that characterise ongoing socio-spatial processes, the articles included here examine state strategies and projects aimed at addressing issues related to economic and social development. By unveiling multi-scalar mechanisms and configurations characteristic of the Global South, the contributions critically interrogate external conceptual frameworks and undertake exercises in conceptual operationalization to analyze a range of public policies and to identify the challenges the state must confront in order to promote development and urbanisation processes.
Copyright (c) 2025 Patricia López Goyburu, Marisa Scardino https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Recensión de tesis: Capacidades estatales en clave multiescalar. Un estudio del Estado nacional y provincial de Entre Ríos en el ámbito de la política industrial (2010-2022)
La tesis aborda el rol del Estado y la construcción de sus capacidades en los procesos de desarrollo basados en el cambio estructural. Se centra en el estudio de las capacidades estatales en Argentina y la provincia de Entre Ríos en el ámbito de la política industrial entre 2010 y 2022, atendiendo a la configuración organizacional y la cohesión interna del Estado.
Copyright (c) 2024 Marcos Valentinuz https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Recensión de tesis: Estado y desarrollo. Tendencias hegemónicas, estructuras de poder y prácticas estatales en Argentina entre mediados del siglo XIX y fines del siglo XX.
Esta tesis aborda los procesos de formación y construcción del Estado argentino y sus vínculos con el desarrollo, entre mediados del siglo XIX y fines del siglo XX. Durante esa trayectoria histórica se pone especial relevancia en analizar las “prácticas estatales como insumo fundamental para observar el proceso formativo y constructivo del poder del Estado sobre la estrategia de acumulación de capital, junto a su orientación hacia el desarrollo. Esas “prácticas estatales” son comprendidas en interacción con “tendencias hegemónicas” y al interior de una “estructura de poder” que contiene al Estado y a diversos actores sociales territorializados. Sostenemos que comprender esa trayectoria histórica desde una perspectiva que tome en cuenta las lógicas sistémicas y las dinámicas sociales local-regionales aporta una mirada informada sobre las formas de construcción del poder del Estado en Argentina.
Copyright (c) 2024 Joel Sidler https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Reseña: Politizar el ambiente, ambientalizar la política; Julián Monkes (coord.); Batalla de Ideas, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, 2023; 1a ed., 240 p. , 978-987-48230-4-5
Copyright (c) 2024 Pereira Jakobowicz Karin Giselle https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Reseña: ¿De la sustentabilidad al desarrollo? Entre el extractivismo verde y la transformación socioambiental. Hans- Jürgen Burchardt, Cecilia Gárgano, Lucas Christel (Coords.) - 1a ed. - Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires: CLACSO; Guadalajara: CALAS
Copyright (c) 2024 Salomé Vuarant https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
El desarrollo de un subdesarrollo desigual e insustentable. Visibilizando el intercambio ecológicamente desigual que enfrentó Argentina entre 1961-2013
In neoclassical theory, international trade is presented as a situation that is always beneficial for both parties and as an engine of development. Starting from the theory of ecologically unequal exchange, a bridge is built between the Political Economy and the Ecological Economics that allows to demolish this postulate. The present work is based on the study of ecological footprint and verifies that Argentina has faced an ecologically unequal exchange throughout 1961-2013. However, it is also shown that this situation is not linear, but that there were deepening processes as relief processes. Finally, it is possible to show that these opposing tendencies had a lot to do with internal historical-political processes. In particular, profound changes are found in the levels of ecologically unequal exchange for the three large accumulation patterns that operated in the period.
Copyright (c) 2024 Guillermo Peinado https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Presentación del número con los avances alcanzados en la indización de la revista durante el año 2024.
Copyright (c) 2024 Lucas Cardozo, Víctor Ramiro Fernández https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Analysis of regressive environmental politic on forests and wetlands under the government of Javier Milei (10.12.2023 - 31.09.2024)
This article explores environmental regressions in the protection of forest and wetland ecosystems during the first nine months of Javier Milei's administration since his inauguration on December 10, 2023. In order to identify regressive policies of an institutional, regulatory and judicial nature, the content of the government regulations published in the Official Gazette of the Nation, which make up the database, has been analysed. In the case of budgetary regressions, the FARN 2024 Budget Monitor was used. This work is based on the recognition of the importance of the principle of non-regression in the Argentine legal system, constitutionally supported and ratified by the Escazú Agreement. In the context of the first government in Argentina openly denying climate change and skeptical about environmental regulation, the principle of non-regression takes on a new urgency.
Copyright (c) 2024 Marianela Galanzino https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Megaminería de cobre para la transición energética: análisis del proyecto “Malargüe Distrito Minero Occidental”, provincia de Mendoza, Argentina
The article seeks to contribute to studies on the relationship between the energy transition paradigm and the expansion of mining extractivism in Argentina, as well as to the analysis of the trajectory of provincial public policies on the matter, especially in those jurisdictions with regulations for the regulation of mining and/or water protection activity. For the analysis, the recent “Malargüe Distrito Minero Occidental” (MDMO) project is taken as a case study, an initiative promoted by the government of the province of Mendoza under the arguments of the need for copper for the energy transition. The objective of the work is to investigate the discourses and strategies used to design and implement this public policy in a province where the conditions of possibility that would allow open pit metal mining to be planned were not given. For this purpose, a theoretical-conceptual strategy was defined based on the proposals on the reference of public policies through the investigation of a variety of written and oral sources (state documents, interviews with key informants, presentations at public hearings). The analysis, focused on state actors, has allowed us to identify the main values, hypotheses and methodologies that construct MDMO as a green initiative. Among them, the following stand out: values ​​associated with responsible mining and the moral commitment to the energy transition, hypotheses relating to Malargüe as a supplier of copper to the world and territorial production methodologies under a zonal logic and construction of social license through strategies of transparency.
Copyright (c) 2024 María Laura Isla Raffaele, Hortensia Castro https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Infraestructura, inundaciones y organización barrial en el territorio isleño del municipio de Santa Fe entre 1970/80 - 2007
Since the late twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century, as a result of this need to adapt the infrastructure to speed up transportation times and reduce costs, proposals for territorial reorganization were put forward based on global dynamics -expressed in the South American Regional Infrastructure Integration Initiative (IIRSA)- which gave greater centrality to the waterway formed by the Paraná River and the Paraguay River, known as the Paraná-Paraguay Waterway. The proposals for the adaptation of the transportation and logistics system required by the international market had a great impact on the province of Santa Fe, which represents the jurisdiction of a large part of the middle and lower reaches of the Paraná River. In this sense, what we propose to observe is how these proposals affect the spatial configuration of the city of Santa Fe and, particularly, of the island territory located in the alluvial valley of the Paraná River between the late 1970s and 2007. For this purpose, we will carry out an instrumental case study, where we will pay special attention to: the infrastructure projects in the area and the interventions and occupations that were developed on the islands under the jurisdiction of the municipality. We will observe this in relation to the way in which the state was managing the increased recurrence of floods that these interventions brought with them and the conflicts that were generated as a result with the local population.
Copyright (c) 2024 Anahí Acebal https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0