Value and politics in the production of a "modern local state" in San Carlos de Bariloche. A theoretical-methodological essay from Anthropology
This article presents a theoretical-methodological approach to the political process that took place during the implementation of one of the pillars of the Modernization Plan designed by Juntos Somos Bariloche administration (2015-2023) aimed at transforming the internal management of the local gove...
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Escuela de Antropología - FHyA
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistadeantropologia.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revistadeantropologia/article/view/343 |
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| Sumario: | This article presents a theoretical-methodological approach to the political process that took place during the implementation of one of the pillars of the Modernization Plan designed by Juntos Somos Bariloche administration (2015-2023) aimed at transforming the internal management of the local government. On that basis, it inverts David Graeber's (2008, 2013, 2018) theory of value to bring it into empirical dialogue with the ethnographic materials produced during my doctoral research. Thus, the article takes "modernization" as an analytical object, assuming that, through the rhetoric of "Development," it has taken shape as a "social value" and in this way it has led to the political mobilization of various actors who, in the local arena, have struggled and continue to struggle to define what that status is and how it is achieved. The overall objective is to contribute to a situated understanding of the multiple ways in which the production (in the double sense of production and reproduction) of the local government as a local political institution is carried out, based on a series of contested and tension-filled practices and meanings surrounding what "a modern state" (and its agents) is, can or should be. |
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