Financialisation in Latin America.
BISA-IPEG webinar series, February 2025.
The BISA International Political Economy Group is running a webinar series on financialisation in Latin America.
The webinar series that critically engages with the variegated pathways of financialisation across Latin America, shedding light on its interplay with state institutions, social relations, and everyday life. Drawing on in-depth analyses from regionally based scholars in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, these conversations will probe how financial imperatives intersect with unique historical trajectories and socio-political configurations. Our goal is to enrich the North-South dialogue by foregrounding the lived realities of those navigating financial markets, highlighting the tensions and contradictions of local and global capital flows.Dr Alan Cibils (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento) will offer a critical examination of Argentina’s experience with subordinate financialisation and its broader implications for the periphery. By focusing on Argentina’s specific historical and socio-political context, this session aims to illuminate how global financial imperatives intersect with local realities, institutions, and everyday life. Dr Cibils’s perspective invites us to reconsider the tensions and contradictions of financialisation from within its concrete, lived forms, thus enriching both the empirical and theoretical dimensions of the debate.
Dr Tomás Nougués will shed light on Argentina’s evolving social security system and illustrate how it became a pivotal mechanism for integrating households into financial markets — tracing this transformation from the 1990s to the present. By revealing the intersection of state policies, institutional reforms, and everyday life, this session aims to deepen our understanding of how financialisation materializes in household practices and experiences.