Insecurity and fear of crime in Argentina: Crime, media and politics in neoliberal times

Autores
Cerruti, Pedro
Año de publicación
2016
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inglés
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The emergence of a punitive approach to social insecurity as a response to the new social question produced by neoliberalism has been described as a global trend. Furthermore, it is a trend that characterizes the increasingly polarized and exclusionist post-industrial societies. In this article, I present a study of the development of these transformations in Argentina, in particular the cultural processes involved in the social construction of “insecurity” as a public problem. Two moments in recent Argentine history are considered: first, the hyperinflationary crisis period of 1989-1990 in which insecurity first emerged as a form of representation of the social consequences of the economic crisis; and, second, Carlos Menem’s second presidency between 1995 and 1999, during which the terminal crisis of neoliberalism occurred and insecurity first appeared as one of the main concerns of the public and as a key issue in political disputes, becoming a priority on the government agenda. Focusing specifically on the political and mass media discourses through which crime and violence were thematized as social problems in the public sphere, this paper analyses the articulation of a discursive formation within which social conflicts caused by the crises of the neoliberal reform were formed as criminal problems that required policing and repressive approaches in order to control them.
Fil: Cerruti, Pedro. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Investigaciones "Gino Germani"; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Materia
NEOLIBERALISM
NEW SOCIAL QUESTION
ARGENTINA
INSECURITY
PUNITIVISM
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title Insecurity and fear of crime in Argentina: Crime, media and politics in neoliberal times
spellingShingle Insecurity and fear of crime in Argentina: Crime, media and politics in neoliberal times
Cerruti, Pedro
NEOLIBERALISM
NEW SOCIAL QUESTION
ARGENTINA
INSECURITY
PUNITIVISM
title_short Insecurity and fear of crime in Argentina: Crime, media and politics in neoliberal times
title_full Insecurity and fear of crime in Argentina: Crime, media and politics in neoliberal times
title_fullStr Insecurity and fear of crime in Argentina: Crime, media and politics in neoliberal times
title_full_unstemmed Insecurity and fear of crime in Argentina: Crime, media and politics in neoliberal times
title_sort Insecurity and fear of crime in Argentina: Crime, media and politics in neoliberal times
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author Cerruti, Pedro
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv NEOLIBERALISM
NEW SOCIAL QUESTION
ARGENTINA
INSECURITY
PUNITIVISM
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NEW SOCIAL QUESTION
ARGENTINA
INSECURITY
PUNITIVISM
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv The emergence of a punitive approach to social insecurity as a response to the new social question produced by neoliberalism has been described as a global trend. Furthermore, it is a trend that characterizes the increasingly polarized and exclusionist post-industrial societies. In this article, I present a study of the development of these transformations in Argentina, in particular the cultural processes involved in the social construction of “insecurity” as a public problem. Two moments in recent Argentine history are considered: first, the hyperinflationary crisis period of 1989-1990 in which insecurity first emerged as a form of representation of the social consequences of the economic crisis; and, second, Carlos Menem’s second presidency between 1995 and 1999, during which the terminal crisis of neoliberalism occurred and insecurity first appeared as one of the main concerns of the public and as a key issue in political disputes, becoming a priority on the government agenda. Focusing specifically on the political and mass media discourses through which crime and violence were thematized as social problems in the public sphere, this paper analyses the articulation of a discursive formation within which social conflicts caused by the crises of the neoliberal reform were formed as criminal problems that required policing and repressive approaches in order to control them.
Fil: Cerruti, Pedro. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Investigaciones "Gino Germani"; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
description The emergence of a punitive approach to social insecurity as a response to the new social question produced by neoliberalism has been described as a global trend. Furthermore, it is a trend that characterizes the increasingly polarized and exclusionist post-industrial societies. In this article, I present a study of the development of these transformations in Argentina, in particular the cultural processes involved in the social construction of “insecurity” as a public problem. Two moments in recent Argentine history are considered: first, the hyperinflationary crisis period of 1989-1990 in which insecurity first emerged as a form of representation of the social consequences of the economic crisis; and, second, Carlos Menem’s second presidency between 1995 and 1999, during which the terminal crisis of neoliberalism occurred and insecurity first appeared as one of the main concerns of the public and as a key issue in political disputes, becoming a priority on the government agenda. Focusing specifically on the political and mass media discourses through which crime and violence were thematized as social problems in the public sphere, this paper analyses the articulation of a discursive formation within which social conflicts caused by the crises of the neoliberal reform were formed as criminal problems that required policing and repressive approaches in order to control them.
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