Social Intervention of the State, Discourses and Neoliberal Governmentality in Argentina (2015-2019)

Abstract

This paper aims to reconstruct the social intervention during the political cycle led by the Cambiemos government within the framework of neoliberal governmentality from discursive analysis. Thus said, it is understood that neoliberalism is a constitutive political rationality of our time and disrupts all instances of daily life. As a form of government, at the same time, it implies the constitution of the construction of certain problems and approaches that are enabled on the frontiers of what is thinkable from the contemporary truth regime. Seen this way, the central objective here will be to introduce an introductory approach to that set of meanings that circulate through the discursive network and manifest themselves to justify state social action. In this sense, in the article, in addition to
the foundation and conceptualization of the theoretical perspective used, three dimensions are identified that structure, characterize, value and/or justify the ways in which the State intervenes socially. Dimensions, which operate as symbolic foundations, which are categorized as follows: the state of poverty, the market of inequality and the recognition of difference