Glocal Riots

Abstract

In the last decade, the Argentine interior became a landscape of violent protest. Structural adjustment or `austerity programs' are undoubtedly at the root of this upsurge in contention. But there are crucial local mediations worth exploring. Based on archival research, in-depth interviewing and secondary sources, this article draws upon the recent `relational turn' in the study of collective action to explore some of the processes that led to two of the most violent episodes of collective claim-making in contemporary Argentina: the riots in Santiago del Estero (1993) and Corrientes (1999).