El escenario participativo de base popular en el Gran Buenos Aires en tiempos neoliberales: huellas de la historia reciente y cambios emergentes

Abstract

The article intends to rebuild the recent Argentinian history of civil society popular participation in public policies models. The objective is to identify the traces of previous experiences and the emerging changes in the current popular participatory scenario. That is, to trace the main characteristics of the historical forms of organization of popular civil society, their agendas and their relationship with the State, in order to identify persistence and changes along the way. For this, three historical periods are analyzed: the emergence and development of popular civil society and the State articulations in the 20th century; the deep transformations produced by neoliberalism and the consequent end-of-century crisis; and the State role reinforcement period, together with participation expansion and institutionalization. Finally, the article describes the current panorama, in the first “Cambiemos” government years, focusing on persistent features and emerging changes.