The path to betterment is now severed from state insti-tutions and depends on making oneself increasinglyproductive in a competitive market.
This passage suggests that betterment is imagined through self-productivity in the market rather than through state institutions. However, it does not automatically follow from this that the US dollar becomes the solution. I wonder what additional symbolic or moral work is needed for dollarization to appear as the natural answer.
Thus, youth’s criticism of the economy is based onthe idea of the Argentine peso as a failed currency: withspiraling inflation, it became impossible to save in thenational currency (
The phrase “failed currency” seems important here. I wonder whether the authors are using it to describe young people’s everyday experience of inflation, or whether it also carries a political implication: that the peso is beyond repair and that dollarization becomes thinkable as the only solution.
hree decades
I wonder how the authors maintain continuity in the category of “youth” across three decades of research. Since the youth studied thirty years ago are no longer young, is “youth” being treated here as a stable analytical category, or as historically changing cohorts?
We also aim to interrogate the process of individu-alization that these subjects go through
I find something strange in the quietness of this process: a radical political and economic shift appears almost ordinary in everyday life.