During the first phase of the Crisis States Programme (2001-2005) Dr Dennis Rodgers undertook a research project on local level institutional change in response to the crisis in Argentina. The project was carried out principally from an anthropological perspective and was an exercise in inductive research. The fieldwork component of the project was conducted between mid-April and mid-September 2003, with the formal production of written output developed between 2003 and 2005. More specifically, the research project considered the conjunction between economic and political action in situations of crisis, focusing on the changing framework of everyday life, and exploring concomitant shifts in forms of collective mobilisation and the processes of their institutionalisation within Argentine society. Background information, the original project proposal, monthly reports, excerpts from interview transcripts, extracts from field notes and photos from this research are available by contacting Dr Rodgers at the University of Glasgow.
Published outputs from this research include:
Crisis States Working Paper 61 'Unintentional Democratisation? the Argentinazo and the politics of participatory budgeting in Buenos Aires 2001-2004'
Crisis States Working Paper 72 : 'Subverting the spaces of invitation? local politics and participatory budgeting in post-crisis Buenos Aires'
'Subverting the spaces of invitation? local politics and participatory budgeting in post-crisis Buenos Aires', Chapter 9 in A. Cornwall and V.S.P. Coelho (eds) Spaces for Change: the politics of participation in New Democratic Arenas (London: Zed Books, 2006) (also in Spanish)