Martin Armelino

Martin Armelino is Political scientist and Doctor of Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Adjunct Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), based at the Institute for Political Research (IIP) of the School of Politics and Government (EPyG) at the National University of San Martín (UNSAM), where he also teaches in the Political Science degree programme. He also teaches postgraduate courses on the topics he has been working on as a researcher in recent years: collective action, trade unionism and social movements, social mobilisation and political participation.

The project

Title: Movilización social y participación política en América Latina

"In the mid-20th century, sociology faced the challenge of understanding a new type of industrial society. This society was characterised by the social mobility of working-class and popular groups, as well as their social mobilisation and political participation, processes that occurred simultaneously.

The discipline sought to analyse phenomena that diverged from the traditional revolutionary path, observable both in the industrialised countries of the North-West and in peripheral regions, notably in Latin America. Convinced that these transformations could be explained on a global scale, sociology conceptualised these processes in terms of political mobilisation.

These developments contributed to the emergence of a hybrid discipline, political sociology, which made it possible to account for the ways in which popular classes became integrated into the political life of mass democracies and played a role in the expansion of markets and consumption."

Hosting Institution: Institut des Hautes Études de l'Amérique Latine (IHEAL) - Université Sorbonne Nouvelle

Selective Bibliography

• 2024. Por qué leer a Juan Carlos Torre. Edhasa, Buenos Aires (Co-editor junto a Catalina Smulovitz y Sebastián Pereyra). 
• 2024. "La movilización social y el problema de la institucionalización. Sindicalismo y movimientos sociales", en Por qué leer a Juan Carlos Torre. Edhasa, Buenos Aires. (Co-autor junto a Sebastián Pereyra). (pp. 67-83)
• 2024. "¿A la sombra del mercado? La economía popular y sus alternativas de integración política", en Por qué leer a Juan Carlos Torre. Edhasa, Buenos Aires. (pp. 217-233).
• "Movimientos sociales y sindicatos: la protesta social durante la posdictadura argentina (1983-1989)", Estudios Sociales Vol. 65, N° 2, diciembre 2023. En co-autoría con Sebastián Pereyra.
• "Control centralizado y arraigo social débil. La expansión territorial del partido PRO en Argentina", Revista SAAP, Vol. 17, Nº 1, mayo 2023, (pp. 35-65). En co-autoría con Gabriel Vommaro, Francisco Longa, Juan Grandinetti y Martín Paladino. 
• "Instituciones políticas y análisis comparativo: una lectura del consenso ortodoxo en la ciencia política contemporánea", Ciencia Política, 16(32), jul-dic 2021 (pp. 192-222). En co-autoría con Santiago Cuni