Abstract

IGLESIAS, Esteban. Identidades políticas en el marco de la acción colectiva: Enfoques sobre la emergencia e institucionalización de la protesta piquetera en Argentina. Postdata [online]. 2015, vol.20, n.1, pp.109-131. ISSN 1851-9601.

This article seeks to analyze the potentials and limitations of the approach of the mobilization of resources and the perspective ofthe social movements in the constitution and the development of the political identity of the "piquetero" movement in Argentina. The selected authors as well as their production have answered to two criteria. On the one hand, the conceptual innovation on the concept ofsocial protest and, on the other hand, to the findings in their empirical investigation. The articulated analysis oftheoretical aspects and empirical findings in the "piqueteros" protest allowed to observe that the approach of the mobilization of resources favoured the political dimension of the collective action in detriment ofthe identity dimension. And the perspective of the social movements emphasized the processes ofidentification disregarding the political dimension of the collective action. This analytical imbalance between the terms politics and identity in the collective action offers the possibility to indicate orientations of analyses that should attend to the complex field ofinteractions between both terms. The mutual incident between the terms politics and identity in the collective action would make possible to detect new situations as well as to exploit explanatory existing vacancies.

Keywords : social protest; State; institutionalization - social movements - piqueteros.

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