Neo-developmentalism and new regionalism in Formosa (northeast-Argentina): state operations and neoliberal reworking

Abstract

Between 2003 and 2015, the Argentine State promoted a mode of economic growth under “neo-developmental” parameters. Within this framework, in the province of Formosa public policies were implemented that, guided by the ideas of the “new regionalism”, institutionalized a territorial configuration of re-staggering/territorialization processes and fragmentary governance arrangements. The purpose of this article is to analyze how such ideas operate and become more dynamic in this sub-national sphere. For this, three dimensions are investigated: the context and institutional forms; the re-staggering/territorialization processes and the fragmentary institutional mechanisms of governance. It is concluded that the action of the State introduces a logic of co-production of policies with the regional/local public-private actors, which, in addition to imposing a deployment of processes of commodification of nature, entails a facilitating and renewing state involvement of processes. of fragmentary disarticulation, continuing and re-elaborating the neoliberal project.

Keywords:
Neo-developmentalism; New regionalism; Neo-liberalism