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| Colectivo Situaciones | |
|---|---|
| Name | Colectivo Situaciones |
| Formation | 1990s |
| Type | Collective |
| Location | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Region served | Argentina |
| Language | Spanish |
Colectivo Situaciones Colectivo Situaciones is an Argentine theoretical and political collective formed in the 1990s in Buenos Aires associated with leftist urban social movements, labor struggles, and intellectual debates. The group engaged with social theory, urbanism, and worker-organizing, interacting with trade unions, student movements, grassroots organizations, and cultural institutions across Latin America and Europe. Its trajectory intersects with international figures, institutions, and events in contemporary leftist thought and practice.
Founded in Buenos Aires amid the 1990s neoliberal reforms associated with Carlos Menem and the Washington Consensus signaled by institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and Inter-American Development Bank, the collective emerged alongside movements responding to privatization, structural adjustment, and urban precarity involving actors like Movimiento de Trabajadores Desocupados, Piqueteros, Central de Trabajadores de la Argentina and social leaders such as Luis D'Elía and Diego Mestre. The group's early interventions occurred in the context of crises culminating in the Argentine great depression (1998–2002), mass mobilizations at the Plaza de Mayo, and the 2001 protests that involved sectors linked to Federación Juvenil Comunista and neighborhood assemblies similar to those around Assemblies of the Neighborhoods. Colectivo Situaciones developed theoretical dialogue with Latin American intellectuals like Atilio Borón, Néstor García Canclini, Horacio González, and with international theorists connected to the Institute for Latin American Studies networks, while engaging in exchanges with activists from Movimiento Sin Tierra and scholars at institutions such as Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, El Colegio de México, and Brown University.
Drawing on traditions linked to Marxism, Autonomism, New Social Movements, and critiques influenced by thinkers like Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Henri Lefebvre, Louis Althusser, and Pierre Bourdieu, the collective advanced concepts about labor, subjectivity, and urban commonality in dialogue with debates surrounding neoliberalism policies pushed by Alan García and Alberto Fujimori in Latin America. Their theoretical corpus addressed the transformation of work seen under technological shifts traced in studies by Manuel Castells, David Harvey, and Michael Hardt and entered debates associated with World Social Forum networks, Zapatista Army of National Liberation, and activist scholarship influenced by Judith Butler and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. They contributed to discussions on recuperated factories such as Zanon (FaSinPat), worker self-management exemplified by SOMOS, and union struggles connected to Federación Metalúrgica and Movimiento Obrero. The collective's writings analyzed urban space in relation to social movements by referencing case studies from Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Mexico City, Madrid, and Paris and dialogued with urbanists associated with Jane Jacobs and Saskia Sassen.
Operating as a non-hierarchical collective, the group interacted with labor organizations like Movimiento de Trabajadores Excluidos, Confederación General del Trabajo, and neighborhood assemblies akin to those in San Telmo and La Boca. Activities included research collaborations with universities such as Université Paris 8, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, and National Autonomous University of Mexico, participation in conferences like Encuentro de Teoría Crítica, and workshops at cultural spaces including Centro Cultural Recoleta and Teatro San Martín. They organized seminars and outreach with artists and intellectuals connected to Grupo de los Veinticuatro, Taller Popular de Arte, and publishing networks with houses such as Editorial Planeta, Siglo Veintiuno Editores, and Capital Intelectual. The collective engaged in solidarity actions linked to movements like Madres de Plaza de Mayo, Barrios de Pie, Movimiento Evita, and international campaigns associated with ATTAC and Global Justice Movement.
The group produced essays, pamphlets, and collective books published in outlets alongside presses such as Editorial Sudamericana and journals similar to La Vanguardia, Revista de Occidente, and Nueva Sociedad. Their work examined cases of factory recuperation at Zanón, cooperative experiments related to Cooperativa El Tambo, and urban struggles in barrios like Villas Miserias and Villa 31. Projects included research on precarious work linking to studies by ILO-informed scholars, comparative analyses engaging with European cases in Greece and Spain during austerity debates influenced by Syriza and Podemos, and collaborations with activists from Solidarity Federation and Socialist Workers Party (UK). They contributed to anthologies alongside voices such as Michael Löwy, Raúl Zibechi, Eduardo Galeano, and engaged in translation projects involving texts by Cornelius Castoriadis and Ernesto Laclau.
Their influence extended to labor experiments in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil, dialogues with social theorists at Yale University, Harvard University, and University of Cambridge, and participation in transnational forums like Mercosur civil society gatherings and UNASUR-era networks. Critics from academic and political spheres associated with Fernando Henrique Cardoso-style policy advocates, economists at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, and commentators in El Clarín and La Nación questioned their strategic orientations, theoretical positions compared with proponents of Peronism linked to Juan Perón and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and practical efficacy relative to union leaders such as Hugo Moyano. Debates involved intellectuals like Beatriz Sarlo and Nicolás Casullo who critiqued their methods and public interventions.
Members and collaborators included figures active in Argentine intellectual and activist circles connected to Universidad de Buenos Aires departments, Buenos Aires cultural collectives, and international networks involving scholars from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Goldsmiths, University of London, and University of California, Berkeley. Affiliations encompassed ties to worker-recovered enterprises such as FaSinPat, solidarity groups like World Cafe, and alliances with NGOs and research centers such as CLACSO and FLACSO.
Category:Political movements in Argentina