THE VICISSITUDES OF GOVERNMENTALITY AND THE QUESTION OF THE STATE. A CRITICAL APPROACH FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF POVERTY AND PRACTICES OF RESISTANCE (SALTA, ARGENTINA)

Abstract

This article aims to provide some theoretical, methodological and practical devices about the question of the state and power, from the governmentality perspective suggested by Foucault and their Latin American heritage. It is assumed that in Argentina’s and Salta’s present, multiple logics and practices of government that codify the state and its vicissitudes are clearly expressed in the government of poverty and in relational frames between rulers and ruled, woven into power and resistance. It is proposed to place this exercise around two expositive axes, beginning with an analysis of concepts and suggested issues by the governmentality perspective; on the other hand an approach to the government of poverty, illustrating this through two case studies around relational frameworks between rulers and ruled, practices of government, resistance and self-government, which configures and reconfigures the state’s role. This work brings into play "an ontology of the present", analyzing forms of power and resistance that still constitutes and reconfigures. It implies a methodological crossroad between genealogy and ethnography, contributing to denature governance practices and logics as well as our present behavior.