INSEAI Network

  sebademiryi@gmail.com

  silviapalmieri.777@gmail.com

National Head of the Public Space Branch of the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy (UTEP) and member of FECOEVITA (Federation of Cooperatives and Companies of the Popular, Social and Solidarity Economy of the Province of Buenos Aires).

She is a social leader and militant specialising in rights of public space workers, street vending, popular economy and fight against criminalisation of informal work in Argentina. She has publicly denounced the extreme police violence suffered by public space workers, including arbitrary detentions of street vendors.

Her research lines include popular economy, labour informality in public space, rights of street vendors and manteros, policies for regularisation of work in public spaces, and fight against police persecution of informal workers. She has participated in street vendor marches under the slogan "Street vending is not a crime" and in presentations of legislative projects to regularise and recognise rights of popular economy workers.

0009-0009-1175-4653

  mcmarinacardelli@gmail.com

Bachelor's degree in Literature from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), currently pursuing a Master's in Discourse Analysis at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, UBA. She is a lecturer in Semiology at UBA and UNSAM.

She is a militant of Movimiento Evita and specialises in popular economy, informal work, sovereignty of peoples and Latin American national thought. She has participated in international events on popular economy, regional integration and sovereignty, including the Puebla Group and acts for the sovereignty of peoples.

Her research lines include popular economy, labour informality, organisation of informal workers, Latin American integration policies, and discourse analysis in contexts of social and political militancy.

  casademuntnahuel@yahoo.com.ar

Militant of Movimiento Evita and representative of the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy (UTEP) in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA). He was Secretary of CTEP (Confederation of Workers of the Popular Economy) Capital Branch and is currently National Secretary of Popular Education at UTEP.

He was part of the executive board of UTEP Capital and actively participated in the organisation of UTEP as a union of popular economy workers, presenting authorities in 2021. He specialises in popular education, popular economy, informal work and organisation of workers excluded from the formal labour market in Argentina.

His research lines include popular economy, labour informality, popular education, self-management of work, popular institutionality, cooperativism and rights of popular economy workers. He has been a reference in relations with textile cooperatives such as Juana Villca and has participated in ethnographic research on popular economies in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires.

0009-0000-3227-6632

  pablochena@gmail.com

PhD in Economics from the Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV, France) and PhD in Social Sciences from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). He is Independent Researcher at CONICET, specialising in Political Economy and Labour Market. He was National Director of Social Economy and Local Development at the Ministry of Social Development of Argentina, where he was in charge of the National Registry of Workers of the Popular Economy (ReNaTEP). He is a lecturer at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP) and the Universidad Nacional de Avellaneda (UNDAV).

He is a member of the Usina del Pensamiento Nacional y Popular (UPNP) led by Alexandre Roig and shares militancy and responsibilities in the national leadership of Movimiento Evita. His research lines include popular economy, labour informality, social policies, local development, and evolution of the popular economy and its relationship with social policies in Argentina (2002-2019).

He has published on popular economy as a mode of production striving for recognition and formalisation, and on the dynamics of informality in global value chains.

  macarocordero@gmail.com

Secretary of Movimiento Evita in the province of Misiones, Argentina, and representative of the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy (UTEP) in that region. She is Deputy Secretary of Movimiento Evita Misiones and member of the Federal Council of Movimiento Evita at national level.

She is a militant and social leader specialising in popular economy, informal work, social policies and organisation of workers in northeastern Argentina. She has actively participated in the organisation of UTEP internal elections, where national authorities were renewed and provincial congress members were elected in 2023.

Her research lines include popular economy, labour informality, defence of informal workers' rights, territorial development policies in Misiones, and grassroots organisation in contexts of economic adjustment and rollback of social rights. She has publicly denounced the suspension of food deliveries and social programmes to community kitchens and popular economy organisations, warning about the impact on millions of working families.

  antoniadelvallevillagra@gmail.com

0009-0003-1999-843X

  duartejoe@hotmail.com

She is a social activist and leader specialising in popular economy, informal work and social policies in Argentina.

Her research lines include popular economy, labour informality, economic crisis and its impact on working families, rights of informal workers, tax distribution and social protection policies. She has participated in public interviews and analyses on the situation of the informal sector in Argentina, warning about growing inequality and the rollback of rights for informal workers in contexts of economic crisis.

She has defended PASO primaries as a tool for democratisation and has criticised government policies affecting food distribution to community kitchens in contexts of rising poverty and indigence.

  paulo.echegaray@gmail.com

  letygomez071@gmail.com

0009-0009-0993-7215

  sonlombardo@gmail.com

Bachelor's degree in Sociology from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) and Master's student in Social Policies and Human Rights at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM). She is a sociologist, popular militant of Seamos Libres (merged with Movimiento Evita) and specialist in popular economy, informal work and social policies in Argentina.id

She was Director of the National Registry of Social Providers and Local Development at the Ministry of Social Development of the Nation, where she coordinated the design and implementation of the National Registry of Workers of the Popular Economy (ReNaTEP), the first state tool at national and regional level aimed at knowing and recognising popular economy workers, reaching more than 4 million registered workers.

She is currently a member of the Observatory of Popular, Social and Solidarity Economy of the Faculty of Social Sciences of UBA and member of FECOEVITA. She has accompanied the development of the Confederation of Workers of the Popular Economy (CTEP) and was a lecturer in the Sociology programme at UBA, where she carried out training with housing cooperatives and workers' movements.

Her research lines include popular economy, labour informality, recognition and formalisation of informal workers, local development policies and social and solidarity economy.