ABSTRACT

The beginning of the twenty-first century brought a new stage in Latin America. After the social movements challenged the neoliberal order, a new kind of government appeared, with leaders who retrieved the demands of the popular classes and even their discourse. The topic of this paper is the Argentine political process resulting in the emergence of Kirchnerism, explaining the political order that arose with the Kirchner and Fernández de Kirchner administrations (2003–15). For a better understanding of contemporary political processes, we should try to retrieve the combined effects of structural (not just economic) relationships and the contingency (not only political) of social disputes. The paper argues that the industrial fraction of the power-bloc was able to lead a hegemonic political order through a populist rupture.

KEYWORDS

Kirchnerism; Argentina; hegemony; populism; powerbloc

From: International Critical Thought 2016 6 (2)

Editor: Wang Yi