Abstract

GALLO, Adriana. Las relaciones de poder durante el menemismo: Las transformaciones en la reformulación del poder, en la Argentina de los noventa. Espiral (Guadalaj.) [online]. 2008, vol.14, n.41, pp.81-107. ISSN 1665-0565.

This paper intends to analyze the relations of power during the 1990's in Argentina, following, in several aspects, Alain Touraine. These will be this our vectors: in the Menemista stage, on the one hand, the State-nation was deconstructed and simultaneously, there occurred a suppression of the Political Subject, engendered in modernity, conceived by Touraine. It will be argued that during the Carlos Menem administration, a collapse of the national referent originated to such an extent that it caused the idea of Subject to become incompatible with the idea of State, bringing about a process of individualization and a concomitant political de-ideologization. All the above shall be dealt with through the analysis of the relations of power, deployed in the two dimensions which, in our understanding, better account for such ties, that is to say, the socio-cultural dimension - where emphasis is laid on the loss of the subject's politicity; and the political dimension - on which the degradation of institutions and the conflicts between government and opposition are referred to.

Keywords : relaciones de poder; sujeto político moderno; cultura menemista.