Autor/es
Descripción
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Colaborador
Soler, Lorena
González Bozzolasco, Ignacio
Temporal Coverage
1989-2008
Idioma
spa
Extent
153 p.
Derechos
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.0 Genérica (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Formato
application/pdf
Identificador
Cobertura
ARG
PRY
1989-2008
Abstract
The objective of the research is to carry out a comparative socio-historical analysis of the corporate action undertaken by the main agricultural business organizations in Argentina and Paraguay during the period 1989-2008. We focus on the joint instances of political conflict led, in the Argentine case, by a) the Rural Society (SRA), b) the Argentine Rural Confederations (CRA), c) the Intercooperative Agricultural Confederation (CONINAGRO) and d) the Agrarian Federation of Argentina (FAA) and, in the Paraguayan case, by a) the Association of Soy Producers (APS), b) the Federation of Production Cooperatives (FECOPROD), c) the Paraguayan Chamber of Cereal Exporters and Marketers and Oleaginosas (CAPECO) and d) the Rural Association of Paraguay (ARP). These organizations are protagonists in the political intervention of the sector, while they hegemonize, centralize and lead corporate action in both countries. They stand as the main institutional interlocutors of the agricultural business with the State.
We start from the premise that business organizations are not isolated entities from the accumulation process and the power relations in which their members participate. These organizations aim to unite dissimilar positions in the economic and productive sphere in order to express them politically through corporate action.
The study reconstructs and analyzes two dimensions of corporate action. First, the structural dimension from which the emergence of agribusiness as a productive paradigm and of a new rurality as a scenario of social interaction is investigated. In this context, we focus on theemergence of a new hegemonic agrarian subject and a novel social structure of the sector, in order to explain the consequences were for the corporate business map.
Secondly, the political dimension from which economic power is reinforced and becomes effective. We focus on joint corporate action, particularly in instances of political conflict undertaken by the business organizations under study. The analysis of this dimension prompts us to ask ourselves: When and why do business entities put their institutional mechanisms into operation? Why in certain moments corporate business action seems to have less gravitation and in others it becomes the privileged strategy of intervention by the agricultural business community?
Our hypothesis is that corporate action plays a fundamental role when there is a real or latent risk that the hegemonic agrarian subject will lose its position in the power bloc. In this case a) the corporate dimension becomes the privileged framework for intervention; b) corporate action and, especially, political conflict is installed as a priority strategy and c) a logic of unity is set in motion, led by the displaced fraction, with the aim of maximizing the ability of influence towards the State.
Given the multidimensionality of the proposed analysis, we present a methodological perspective based on Historical Sociology. It admits an analysis focused on the intersections of structural contexts and group experiences and becomes especially fruitful for the approach to social change, one of the central axes of this research. For its part, the comparative methodology allows us to construct unique objects, temporalities and categories that arise from the joint investigation of the cases and fill a vacancy in the compared studies with a Latin American perspective.
We start from the premise that business organizations are not isolated entities from the accumulation process and the power relations in which their members participate. These organizations aim to unite dissimilar positions in the economic and productive sphere in order to express them politically through corporate action.
The study reconstructs and analyzes two dimensions of corporate action. First, the structural dimension from which the emergence of agribusiness as a productive paradigm and of a new rurality as a scenario of social interaction is investigated. In this context, we focus on theemergence of a new hegemonic agrarian subject and a novel social structure of the sector, in order to explain the consequences were for the corporate business map.
Secondly, the political dimension from which economic power is reinforced and becomes effective. We focus on joint corporate action, particularly in instances of political conflict undertaken by the business organizations under study. The analysis of this dimension prompts us to ask ourselves: When and why do business entities put their institutional mechanisms into operation? Why in certain moments corporate business action seems to have less gravitation and in others it becomes the privileged strategy of intervention by the agricultural business community?
Our hypothesis is that corporate action plays a fundamental role when there is a real or latent risk that the hegemonic agrarian subject will lose its position in the power bloc. In this case a) the corporate dimension becomes the privileged framework for intervention; b) corporate action and, especially, political conflict is installed as a priority strategy and c) a logic of unity is set in motion, led by the displaced fraction, with the aim of maximizing the ability of influence towards the State.
Given the multidimensionality of the proposed analysis, we present a methodological perspective based on Historical Sociology. It admits an analysis focused on the intersections of structural contexts and group experiences and becomes especially fruitful for the approach to social change, one of the central axes of this research. For its part, the comparative methodology allows us to construct unique objects, temporalities and categories that arise from the joint investigation of the cases and fill a vacancy in the compared studies with a Latin American perspective.
Título obtenido
Magíster de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Estudios Sociales Latinoamericanos
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales