Federico M. Rossi is a Research Professor of CONICET at the School of Politics and Government of the National University of San Martín, Argentina. Rossi received his Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence. Rossi's research interests focus on the relational study of social movements - state dynamics and on the historical analysis of strategy-making. His work has been published in more than fifteen edited volumes, in Latin American Politics and Society, Latin American Perspectives, Social Movement Studies, Mobilization, International Sociology, Desarrollo Económico, and América Latina Hoy, among others. He is the co-editor of Social Movement Dynamics: New Perspectives on Theory and Research from Latin America (2015). Rossi has been Global Visiting Scholar at New York University, Postdoctoral Fellow at Tulane University, Louisiana and the European University Institute, and Visiting Researcher at the Universidade de Brasília and Singapore Management University.
Part I. Theoretical Framework: 1. Introduction: a theory for the popular
sectors' quest for inclusion in Latin America; 2. Beyond repertoires of
contention: conceptualizing strategy making in social movements; Part II.
The Second Incorporation in Argentina: 3. From the origin of unemployed
workers' protests to recognition of the 'piquetero question' (1996-9);
4. From recognition of the claim to the legitimation of the piquetero
movement as a national actor (1999-2001); 5. From movement legitimation to
failed state reincorporation in the socio-political arena (2002-3); 6.
Party territorial reincorporation in the socio-political arena (2003-9); 7.
The aftermath of second incorporation: between continuity and change
(2009-15); Part III. Comparisons and Conclusions: 8. Social movements and
the struggle to reshape the socio-political arena in Bolivia and Brazil; 9.
Conclusions.
