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  1. CROSSROADS OF A POLITICAL LABYRINTHAnti-Neoliberalism, Intellectual Paradigms and Economic Development in South AmericaJosé Francisco Puello-Socarrásjosephco@yahoo.comUniversidad Nacional de San Martin (UNSAM - ARG)Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET - ARG)Fundación de Investigaciones Sociales y Políticas (FISYP - ARG)

  2. Crisis of Neoliberal hegemony (paradigm of development) relatedwithAntineoliberalism wave in thefirstdecade of XXI century (regional and global). • New discourseson «Development» in AL (Neo- developmental, Socialism, etc.) comingtoupdated. Thereis no Tachter’s TINA orWC’sConsensus. The “Battle of ideas” is !alive and kickin’! Neither «Post» neoliberalism • ¿Whatkindof dialogue ispossiblebetweenpolitics and intellectualfields? (Power-Knowledgedynamics).

  3. Neoliberalism and Anti-neoliberalism in Latin America and the Caribbean 1977 2010 70s 1989 1994 2001 2004 1998

  4. ¿Whatisthe so-called anti-neoliberalism (AN)? • Which are the «new development» paradigmsarisen? Are they (ornot) differentsfromtheprevious neoliberal era? What’sold-and-new in AN? • ¿How?: Who, whom, and mechanism and processes

  5. “Ideas matters”: Where, Who, How… ideas diseminating and materializing in social contexts through political and economic process (viewed as a social forces) • Intellectuals as mediators (e.g. second-hand dealers) translate grand abstract ideas into specifics ones in particular contexts (crucial input to ‘action’)

  6. Figure 1. Normative-cognitive levels in the «Battle of Ideas Dynamics» Source: Puello-Socarrás (2008, 2009, 2010 based on Plehwe and Surel).

  7. Study Case Selection in Comparative approach (mechanism-based analysis)

  8. Conclusions • AntineoliberalismBifurcation: Neoliberalism’sDifraction and Counter-neoliberalism’sin action. 2. Intellectualmediators as a crucial agents of «rethinking» development (paradigmsand «models»). 3. Modes of intellectualmediationshapesdiferenttrajectories of the «rethinkingdevelopment» processes. 4. PosibilitiesaboutAlteR/NativEforms of «development» (Paradigms Models  Strategies  Tactics…).

  9. Old-Orthodox Anglo-american perspectives Difraction Neoliberalism Anti-Neoliberalism Neoliberalism as a whole New-Hetherodox Austrian & German perspectives ‘New’ Neoliberalism Bifurcation Counter-neoliberalism

  10. Conclusions (Partial) • AntineoliberalismBifurcation: Neoliberalism’sDifraction and Counter-neoliberalism’sin action. 2. Intellectualmediators as a crucial agents of «rethinking/thinkinganother» development (paradigmsand «models»). 3. Modes of intellectualmediationshapesdiferentstrajectories of thisprocess. 4. PosibilitiesaboutAlteR/NativEforms of «development» (Paradigms Models  Strategies  Tactics…).

  11. Middle-range interaction /dynamics of realities construction Social-PoliticalProjects (politicalenvisioneduthopies) PolicyPrograms (instrumentalization)

  12. Utopiaisonthehorizon; I walktwosteps, ittakestwosteps back. I walk ten steps, and itis ten stepsfurtheraway. The more I walkthefurtherawayitis. WhatisUtopiafor. Itisforthis, forwalking La Utopía… ella está en el horizonte. Me acerco dos pasos, ella se aleja dos pasos. Camino diez pasos y el horizonte se va diez pasos más allá. Por mucho que yo camine, nunca la alcanzaré. Para qué sirve la Utopía? Para eso sirve: para caminar Eduardo Galeano

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