https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/anti.12673?af=R Abstract

How and why do political parties, seemingly focused on electoral politics, also mobilise within contentious arenas? Drawing on qualitative research with a centre"?left Argentine party called Nuevo Encuentro (NE) in the city of Buenos Aires this paper demonstrates the importance of a geographical reading of "movement parties" for responding to this question. Specifically, the paper analyses NE's territorialisation, understood as a strategy for organisation building via the political appropriation of space, typically by opening branches and mobilising activists in neighbourhoods. Between 2007 and 2019 NE's strategy of territorialisation mobilised across multiple scales"?the neighbourhood, city and national"?yet in so doing its organisation became overstretched and struggled to engage across both contentious and electoral arenas. Through an analysis of NE's territorialisation, grounded in the historical and geographical context of contemporary Argentina, the paper provides an original attempt to spatialise the concept of movement party.

Resumen

¿C??mo y por qu? los partidos pol??ticos, aparentemente enfocados en la pol??tica electoral, tambi?n movilizan en las arenas contenciosas? Basado en una investigaci??n emp??rica realizada en la Ciudad Aut??noma de Buenos Aires sobre el partido de centroizquierda llamado Nuevo Encuentro (NE), el art??culo demuestra la importancia de una lectura geogr??fica del "partido movimiento" para responder a ese interrogante. Espec??ficamente, el art??culo analiza la territorializaci??n de NE, entendida como una estrategia de construcci??n de organizaci??n a trav?s de la apropiaci??n pol??tica del espacio, generalmente mediante la apertura de locales partidarios y la movilizaci??n de militantes del barrio. Entre 2007 y 2019 la estrategia de territorializaci??n de NE incluy?? m??ltiples escalas"?el barrio, la ciudad, y lo nacional. Sin embargo, en ese proceso, su organizaci??n se abarc?? demasiado y encontr?? dificultades para participar tanto en la arena electoral como en la contenciosa. Con el an??lisis de la territorializaci??n de NE, arraigada en el contexto hist??rico y geogr??fico de la Argentina contempor??nea, el art??culo hace un intento original por espacializar el concepto del partido movimiento.

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