Argentine rebelle: un laboratoire de contre-pouvoirs

Title: Argentine rebelle: un laboratoire de contre-pouvoirs

Photographer(s): Daniel Hérard

Writer(s): Cécile Raimbeau

Designer(s): Denis Couchaux

Publisher(s): Editions Alternatives, Paris,France

Year: 2006

Print run:

Language(s): French

Pages: 142

Size: 16 x 24 cm

Binding: Softcover

Edition:

Print: Just Colour Graphic, Barcelona, Spain

Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Argentina, 2001

ISBN: 9782862274744

In response to the criticism often levelled at anti-globalization activists, who are accused of focusing their efforts on protesting rather than proposing alternatives, the authors of this book wanted to show how Argentine rebels are providing innovative solutions to specific problems. When those they have elected no longer represent them, citizens organize direct democracy in their neighborhoods. When purchasing power falls, the economy is rebuilt on the basis of old junk and bartering. When factories close, those who have been laid off set up production lines, without a boss... The Argentine experience offers answers that may also be of interest to old democracies that doubt their future, faced with a crisis of representation, declining purchasing power, and rising unemployment. Told through texts and photos, this is the story of the rebellion of citizens like us who are reacting to the crises that threaten us.