Open Lecture: Popular movements and their link with the State: challenges and opportunities for socio-urban integration

This open lecture analyzes the strategies and methods promoted by Latin American social movements in setting the public agenda and developing socio-urban integration policies, taking as a central case the recent Argentine experience: the creation of the National Registry of Popular Neighborhoods (RENABAP) in 2016, the enactment of Law 27.453 ("Popular Neighborhoods Law") in 2018 and its subsequent implementation through the management of the Secretariat of Socio-Urban Integration. 

This project aims to reconstruct the history of social movements in Argentina from a Latin American perspective, recovering their struggles for access to land and housing and investigating the processes of dialogue with the State that led to their inclusion on the agenda and the subsequent institutionalization of the RENABAP (National Registry of Popular Neighborhoods) and the enactment of Law 27.453 as the legal framework for managing subsequent public policy actions. It seeks to identify the reconfigurations that occur in social movements upon entering state management (as in the experience of the SISU, the Social and Urban Development System), and thus understand the role of the Popular Economy in these processes.

Objective

To analyze the different strategies and methods promoted by social movements around the installation of the public agenda and the subsequent development of public policies on socio-urban integration, taking the case of recent Argentina.

Specific objectives

• To reconstruct the history of social movements in Argentina from a Latin American perspective and their experiences of struggle for access to land and housing.
• To investigate the initial processes of dialogue with the State and the consolidation of a demand, taking the case of the institutionalization of RENABAP in Argentina during 2016.
• Identify the configurations produced at the moment when the demand of the sectors that fight for land and housing becomes public policy based on the experience of the Secretariat of Socio-Urban Integration of Argentina.
• Understanding the role of the Popular Economy within the framework of co-management processes of public policy actions. 

SESSION 1: Social movements and access to socio-urban integration in Latin America

Synthesis: Social movements, Latin America, disputes over access to land and housing, neoliberalism.
It explores the historical foundations of the emergence and consolidation of Latin American social movements at the end of the 20th century and their relationship with the struggles for socio-urban integration.

SESSION 2: Socio-Urban Integration Policies: the experience of the National Registry of Popular Neighborhoods in Argentina and Law 27.453

Summary: RENABAP, local actions, demand formation, institutionalization, reconfigurations. It presents the case of RENABAP, its background and the articulation of actors that enabled it, up to the enactment of Law 27.453.

SESSION 3: Dialogues between social movements and the State: new tools and pending challenges

COMING SOON

Summary: How is the role of social movements configured in conjunction with institutional structures, what challenges are involved in bringing the sector's demands to the public agenda, and what actions attempt to break the limits of state bureaucracy while simultaneously moving towards a horizon of transformation?

SESSION 4: The link between the Popular Economy and the struggles for socio-urban integration

COMING SOON

Summary: Popular Economy and Cooperativism. It analyzes the link between the Popular Economy and socio-urban integration, with a focus on construction worker cooperatives and their role in the urbanization of their own territories.

Guest speakers: 

• Alberto Larez — Campo Unamuno Workers' Cooperative (Villa Fiorito)
• Álvaro Llambí — Campo Unamuno Workers' Cooperative (Villa Fiorito)
• Claudio Spicola — Caritas Quilmes
• David Benítez — Caritas Quilmes
• Fernanda García Monticelli — Executive Director of CISUR and former Undersecretary of Land Management and Neighborhood Services (SISU)
• Fernanda Miño — National Representative of Argentina Humana, National Deputy for the Fuerza Patria bloc and former Secretary of Socio-Urban Integration
• Gustavo Oscar Carrara — Archbishop of La Plata, President of the Episcopal Commission of Caritas
• Johanna Duarte — Evita Movement, Union Secretary of the UTEP
• Juan Farías — Unión de los Andes Cooperative (San Martín de los Andes), Movement of Excluded Workers
• Juan Grabois — National Deputy and national leader of Argentina Humana and the Frente Patria Grande
• Leonardo Grosso — President of IDUAR, Moreno and a leading figure within the Evita Movement
• María Migliore — Director of Productive Development within FUNDAR and former Minister of Human Development and Habitat of the City of Buenos Aires
• Romina Segovia — Caritas Quilmes 

Responsible: 

• Paula Ramirez
• Cristian Poczynok
• Matías Hoffman
• Alejo Andrade

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