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Vior, Susana E.
Ouviña, Hernán D.
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spa
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354 p.
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Cobertura
ARG
2003-2015
Abstract
Since its creation in 1985, the Inter-University National Council (Consejo Interuniversitario Nacional, CIN) has been the representative of public universitiies in Argentina, as part a the formal structure of coordination which was inititates by the Higher Education Act (Ley de Educación Superior, 1995, LES); this regulation is itself a characteristic part of a cycle of neoliberal reforms cycle in the country. Our research aims at deepen the understanding of the role ot the Council in shaping higher education policies while by performing inter-university coordination whithin the inter-university coordination and government regime of the successive government administrations. Specifically, we focus on its
relations with the Secretary of Universitiy Policies (Secretaría de Políticas Universitarias, SPU) during the presidencies of N. Kirchner and C. Fernandez (2003-2015).
Our concern is to understand the transformations of the relationship between the State and the University over the last forty years. From that vantage point we explore the ways in which disputes among competing socio-political university projects take place. We examine the inter-university coordination regime and the CIN´s role as a manifestation of the changing metamorphosis forms, functions and structure of the State in its general aspect of polítical rule. Theis is itsefl a product of complex and path-dependent mediations, and the continued redefinition between economy and politics which is inherent to capitalist social relationships. For that, we draw on the Strategic Relational Approach to the State (SRA) developed by B. Jessop. The SRA provides a set of medium-range concepts to explore the changing forms, functions and effects of the State by integrating several contributions from Marxist theory; in particular, the analysis of the State as social relation in capitalist societies.
Part One is comprised ot two chapters in which we reconstruct inter-university coordination and the orle of the organs of representation of the public universiries (UUNN) in their historical and theoretical aspects. Chapter 1 covers the one hundred years that lapsed from the promulgation of the Avellaneda Law in 1885 to 1989 in order to describe the social process that resulted in the emergence of the interuniversity coordination as an issue in the university field as well in the social field. We also explore the shaping of a coordination agenda and the factors tha hindered the stabilization of a coordination regime, which would not occur until the 1990s. From that historical reconstruction, in Chapter 2 we review the theoretical frameworks and the empirical research relative to the subject study from the end of the 1970s. We present the most relevant moments and knotty aspects of the political and academic debate, and we establish the foundation for the SRA to enrich the understanding of recent transformations.
The Second Part of the thesis describes the evolution and characteristics of the regime of interuniversity coordination and the role of the CIN from 1990s on. In Chapter 3 we compile contributions from various research sources in order to present the political process that allowed the establishment and the first operation phase of a coordination regime that found structural stability thanks to the LES regulations throughout the presidencies of C.S. Menem, F. De la Rúa y E. Duhalde. Such "neoliberal regime of inter-university coordination" will be inherited by the Kirchner and Fernández Administrations. In Chapter 4 we analyze the results of the empirical data from different sources (Plenary Agreements, minutes of Ordinary and Extraordinary meetings, legislations, official documents, interviews, press articles, etc.). Our analysis of the university policies of the period balances on three important axes which allows us to identify transformations in the Council and its relations with the SPU in the establishment of higher education policies: Improvement Programs, policies for system expansion, an discussions regarding the promulgation fo a new law.
By applying SRA, we analyze the evolution of the CIN in its formal (institutional) aspects as well as its substantive (strategic and discursive) aspects. Upon such bases we postulate the metamorphosis of the regime of interuniversity coordination as a "neoliberal-progressive" one: neoliberal because of its form and progressive because of its content. We conclude that such a metamorphosis took place through the strengthening of the organization of the Council as representative of the public universities and simultaneously by perfecting its alignment, integration and close contact with the nucleus of the state apparatus. Thus, it contributed to the consolidation of a basic consensus regarding a "university project" which acquired a hegemonic character and presented itself as superior to neoliberal regulations. We propose that such changes in the university sector can be seen as expression of changes in the balance of power in the block of social forces, due to concrete and structural constraints of the accumulation in Argentina.
relations with the Secretary of Universitiy Policies (Secretaría de Políticas Universitarias, SPU) during the presidencies of N. Kirchner and C. Fernandez (2003-2015).
Our concern is to understand the transformations of the relationship between the State and the University over the last forty years. From that vantage point we explore the ways in which disputes among competing socio-political university projects take place. We examine the inter-university coordination regime and the CIN´s role as a manifestation of the changing metamorphosis forms, functions and structure of the State in its general aspect of polítical rule. Theis is itsefl a product of complex and path-dependent mediations, and the continued redefinition between economy and politics which is inherent to capitalist social relationships. For that, we draw on the Strategic Relational Approach to the State (SRA) developed by B. Jessop. The SRA provides a set of medium-range concepts to explore the changing forms, functions and effects of the State by integrating several contributions from Marxist theory; in particular, the analysis of the State as social relation in capitalist societies.
Part One is comprised ot two chapters in which we reconstruct inter-university coordination and the orle of the organs of representation of the public universiries (UUNN) in their historical and theoretical aspects. Chapter 1 covers the one hundred years that lapsed from the promulgation of the Avellaneda Law in 1885 to 1989 in order to describe the social process that resulted in the emergence of the interuniversity coordination as an issue in the university field as well in the social field. We also explore the shaping of a coordination agenda and the factors tha hindered the stabilization of a coordination regime, which would not occur until the 1990s. From that historical reconstruction, in Chapter 2 we review the theoretical frameworks and the empirical research relative to the subject study from the end of the 1970s. We present the most relevant moments and knotty aspects of the political and academic debate, and we establish the foundation for the SRA to enrich the understanding of recent transformations.
The Second Part of the thesis describes the evolution and characteristics of the regime of interuniversity coordination and the role of the CIN from 1990s on. In Chapter 3 we compile contributions from various research sources in order to present the political process that allowed the establishment and the first operation phase of a coordination regime that found structural stability thanks to the LES regulations throughout the presidencies of C.S. Menem, F. De la Rúa y E. Duhalde. Such "neoliberal regime of inter-university coordination" will be inherited by the Kirchner and Fernández Administrations. In Chapter 4 we analyze the results of the empirical data from different sources (Plenary Agreements, minutes of Ordinary and Extraordinary meetings, legislations, official documents, interviews, press articles, etc.). Our analysis of the university policies of the period balances on three important axes which allows us to identify transformations in the Council and its relations with the SPU in the establishment of higher education policies: Improvement Programs, policies for system expansion, an discussions regarding the promulgation fo a new law.
By applying SRA, we analyze the evolution of the CIN in its formal (institutional) aspects as well as its substantive (strategic and discursive) aspects. Upon such bases we postulate the metamorphosis of the regime of interuniversity coordination as a "neoliberal-progressive" one: neoliberal because of its form and progressive because of its content. We conclude that such a metamorphosis took place through the strengthening of the organization of the Council as representative of the public universities and simultaneously by perfecting its alignment, integration and close contact with the nucleus of the state apparatus. Thus, it contributed to the consolidation of a basic consensus regarding a "university project" which acquired a hegemonic character and presented itself as superior to neoliberal regulations. We propose that such changes in the university sector can be seen as expression of changes in the balance of power in the block of social forces, due to concrete and structural constraints of the accumulation in Argentina.
Título obtenido
Doctora en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales