Voices from the Margins: Rethinking Neoliberalism from Latin America

Workshop convened under the SNSF project “A Matter of Life and Debt: The Lost Decade and the Rise of Neoliberalism from Latin America, 1982–1994”

PROGRAMME

Panel 1 : (Re)constructing Neoliberal Narratives

Chair: Rui Esteves (Geneva Graduate Institute)

• Paula Vedoveli (Getulio Vargas Foundation) A Narrative of Conviction: The Rise of Economic Growth Indicators of Economic Growth in Authoritarian Brazil, 1960s–1970s
• Matilde Ciolli (Università Valle d'Aosta) Álvaro Alsogaray and the Making of Argentine Neoliberalism
• Germano Ribeiro (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) Using Congressional Debates to Map Out Tax Rhetoric in Latin America (2000s): An Exploratory Study of Reforms in Brazil and Argentina

Panel 2 : Peripheral Agents of Neoliberal Order

Chair: Janick Schaufelbuehl (Université de Lausanne)

• José Antonio Galindo Dominguez (Centro Universitario Anglo Mexicano), The Invisible Hands of the Market: Private Organizations and the Architecture of NAFTA's Neoliberal Order
• Ricardo Hernán Valenzuela (Universidad Diego Portales), Reframing the Crisis: The Instituto de Economía Política and the Contested Neoliberal Imagination in Chile, 1982–1985
• Anna Rangel (University of Sao Paulo), The 1987 Brazilian Moratorium as Peripheral Agency: Debtor States, Global Financial
  Hierarchy, and Negotiations Strategies 

Panel 3 : Contested Grounds of Neoliberal Reform

Chair: Sebastian Alvarez (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez)

• Victoria Basualdo (CONICET Argentina), Economic and Labor Transformations of the Steel Sector in Argentina (1970s-1990s): The Case of Acindar Villa Constitución
• Margarita Fajardo (Sarah Lawrence College), Chile’s Neoliberal Nationalization: Copper Sovereignty and the Failed Promise of Foreign Investment  
• Laurent Mauron (Université de Lausanne), The Zapatistas and Neoliberal Reforms (1994–1996): From an Indigenous Uprising to the Construction of a Universal Cause

Panel 4 : IFIs and the Contested International Neoliberal Agenda

Chair: Juan Flores Zendejas (Université de Genève)

• Fernanda Conforto de Oliveira & Carlo Edoardo Altamura (Université de Lausanne), Who Learned What? Revisiting IMF and World Bank Engagement in the 1982 Mexican Debt Crisis
• Gabriella Lima (Université de Lausanne), Global Pressures, Local Resistance: IFIs and the Struggles over the Wage Policy Reform in Brazil (1982–1983)
• Claudia Kedar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Argentine-Style Neoliberalization: Carlos Menem, the World Bank, and State Transformation, 1989–1999

Round Table : Rethinking Latin America’s Place in the Global History of Neoliberalism

Moderator: Carlo Edoardo Altamura (University of Lausanne)

• Claudia Kedar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• Victoria Basualdo (CONICET Argentina)

• Margarita Fajardo (Sarah Lawrence College)

   

Closing Remarks

Carlo Edoardo Altamura