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Dr. Lucas Becerra
Universidad Nacional de Quilmes

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Journal article
Published: 24 November 2020 in Sustainability
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How is it possible to design and deploy circular economy (CE) strategies oriented to inclusive development? How can non-traditional units of production and consumption (i.e., actual productive actors such as waste picker cooperatives and peasant organizations) be integrated into these strategies? Using data collected as a result of two long-term participatory action research projects carried out with a waste picker cooperative in Buenos Aires and 65 peasant families in Chaco (both located in Argentina) the paper opens the door to a proactive critical debate in terms of how to integrate circular economy principles with the development of technological solutions (artifacts, processes and methods of organization). We show that CE holds great potential, both in terms of its contribution to the generation of new interpretive frameworks and also, in terms of nurturing local and inclusive development strategies when it is integrated with collaborative, bottom-up and innovative dynamics. Based on the idea of working with heterogeneous traditional production units (not only with profit-maximizing firms), it is possible to think of social development avenues for vulnerable populations, where the CE principles build up mechanisms capable of maximizing the transformative potential of the resources (including those understood as waste) presented in actual techno-economic matrices.

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Lucas Becerra; Sebastián Carenzo; Paula Juarez. When Circular Economy Meets Inclusive Development. Insights from Urban Recycling and Rural Water Access in Argentina. Sustainability 2020, 12, 9809 .

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Lucas Becerra, Sebastián Carenzo, Paula Juarez. When Circular Economy Meets Inclusive Development. Insights from Urban Recycling and Rural Water Access in Argentina. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (23):9809.

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Lucas Becerra; Sebastián Carenzo; Paula Juarez. 2020. "When Circular Economy Meets Inclusive Development. Insights from Urban Recycling and Rural Water Access in Argentina." Sustainability 12, no. 23: 9809.

Journal article
Published: 18 April 2018 in Ciencia, Docencia y Tecnología
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El objetivo de este trabajo es reconstruir analíticamente las acciones de resistencia socio-técnica desarrolladas por diferentes actores sociales como formas de resignificación de los procesos de innovación y cambio tecnológico. Para dar cuenta de este objetivo el trabajo se propone, en primer lugar, realizar un análisis crítico de los enfoques sobre resistencia a la tecnología y la introducción de algunas herramientas conceptuales de análisis socio-técnico. A continuación, realiza un análisis de dos estudios de caso, que permiten identificar al menos al menos dos formas de resistencia socio-técnica: a) por resignificación de tecnologías y b) a través de la construcción de sistemas tecnológicos alternativos. Finalmente, se proponen unas conclusiones integradoras que permiten construir una conceptualización de «resistencia socio-técnica».

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Santiago Manuel Garrido; Hernán Eduardo Thomas; Lucas Dardo Becerra. Tecnología, ideología y hegemonía. Repensando los procesos de resistencia socio-técnica. Ciencia, Docencia y Tecnología 2018, 29, 186 -207.

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Santiago Manuel Garrido, Hernán Eduardo Thomas, Lucas Dardo Becerra. Tecnología, ideología y hegemonía. Repensando los procesos de resistencia socio-técnica. Ciencia, Docencia y Tecnología. 2018; 29 (56):186-207.

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Santiago Manuel Garrido; Hernán Eduardo Thomas; Lucas Dardo Becerra. 2018. "Tecnología, ideología y hegemonía. Repensando los procesos de resistencia socio-técnica." Ciencia, Docencia y Tecnología 29, no. 56: 186-207.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2018 in Apuntes: Revista de Ciencias Sociales
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Gabriela Bortz; Lucas Becerra; Hernan Thomas. De la «transferencia tecnológica» al desarrollo local. Dinámicas sociotecnocognitivas en el caso del Yogurito escolar (Argentina, 1984-2015). Apuntes: Revista de Ciencias Sociales 2018, 45, 33 -69.

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Gabriela Bortz, Lucas Becerra, Hernan Thomas. De la «transferencia tecnológica» al desarrollo local. Dinámicas sociotecnocognitivas en el caso del Yogurito escolar (Argentina, 1984-2015). Apuntes: Revista de Ciencias Sociales. 2018; 45 (82):33-69.

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Gabriela Bortz; Lucas Becerra; Hernan Thomas. 2018. "De la «transferencia tecnológica» al desarrollo local. Dinámicas sociotecnocognitivas en el caso del Yogurito escolar (Argentina, 1984-2015)." Apuntes: Revista de Ciencias Sociales 45, no. 82: 33-69.

Book chapter
Published: 23 May 2017 in Critical Studies of Innovation
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Innovation studies have, at least until now, neglected to analyse the actions of resistance to technological change. The neo-Schumpeterian and evolutionary economics of innovation focused on a particular range of socio-technical actions: those related to the generation of new products and production systems aimed at maximizing income by generating conditions of market monopoly. That is, the studies on innovation only consider a limited range of possibilities in terms of accumulation models, forms of production and circulation of goods, and problem-solution dynamics. Given these restrictions, it is not surprising that other processes of technological innovation generated by other social actors in other loci (public research and development institutions, public enterprises, non-governmental organizations, grassroots organizations, trade unions, indigenous communities as well as individual users) have not been critically examined. As these actors are key to processes of socio-technical resistance, the forms of rejection or construction of counter-hegemonic alternatives have not been addressed. The chapter aims at uncovering, analytically, resistance actions carried out by actors which have been so far been overlooked by mainstream studies on innovation. The idea is to analyse socio-technical resistance as a resignification of innovation, as a type of reinnovation.

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Hernan Thomas; Lucas Becerra; Santiago Garrido. Socio-technical dynamics of counter-hegemony and resistance. Critical Studies of Innovation 2017, 182 -200.

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Hernan Thomas, Lucas Becerra, Santiago Garrido. Socio-technical dynamics of counter-hegemony and resistance. Critical Studies of Innovation. 2017; ():182-200.

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Hernan Thomas; Lucas Becerra; Santiago Garrido. 2017. "Socio-technical dynamics of counter-hegemony and resistance." Critical Studies of Innovation , no. : 182-200.

Book chapter
Published: 19 April 2017 in Towards Just and Sustainable Economies
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In Latin America the relationships between technological innovation and inclusive development have been stabilised into research and policy agendas. However, conventional understandings of what constitutes innovation still guide practices that are embedded in Science and Technology Policy. This chapter aims at providing a reconceptualisation of the notion of the innovation and production system. In particular, the chapter utilises theoretical perspectives to position worker cooperatives as actors providing dynamism to innovation and social development processes, and argues that a shift in focus towards worker cooperatives could have the potential to set in motion a series of dynamics of learning, knowledge sharing, and techno-productive capability generation which would entail new socio-technical alliances oriented to more democratic processes of knowledge acquisition. It presents a brief review of the economic literature on the role of the company in terms of innovation, followed by a critical analysis of those principles. The chapter provides an explanation of the systemic implications of an innovation and production system focused on the profit-maximizing company vis-à-vis one focused on worker cooperatives. It closes with a series of reflections on STI public policies aimed at inclusive development.

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Lucas Becerra; Hernan Thomas. Innovation, cooperatives and inclusive development: rethinking technological change and social inclusion. Towards Just and Sustainable Economies 2017, 1 .

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Lucas Becerra, Hernan Thomas. Innovation, cooperatives and inclusive development: rethinking technological change and social inclusion. Towards Just and Sustainable Economies. 2017; ():1.

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Lucas Becerra; Hernan Thomas. 2017. "Innovation, cooperatives and inclusive development: rethinking technological change and social inclusion." Towards Just and Sustainable Economies , no. : 1.

Book chapter
Published: 19 April 2017 in Towards just and sustainable economies
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With capitalism in crisis - rising inequality, unsustainable resource depletion and climate change all demanding a new economic model - the Social and Solidarit...

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Lucas Becerra; Hernán Thomas; Peter North; Molly Scott Cato. Innovation, cooperatives and inclusive development:. Towards just and sustainable economies 2017, 99 -116.

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Lucas Becerra, Hernán Thomas, Peter North, Molly Scott Cato. Innovation, cooperatives and inclusive development:. Towards just and sustainable economies. 2017; ():99-116.

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Lucas Becerra; Hernán Thomas; Peter North; Molly Scott Cato. 2017. "Innovation, cooperatives and inclusive development:." Towards just and sustainable economies , no. : 99-116.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2017 in Ecology and Society
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Gordon, A., L. D. Becerra, and M. Fressoli. 2017. Potentialities and constraints in the relation between social innovation and public policies: some lessons from South America. Ecology and Society 22(4):2. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09493-220402

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Ariel Gordon; Lucas D. Becerra; Mariano Fressoli. Potentialities and constraints in the relation between social innovation and public policies: some lessons from South America. Ecology and Society 2017, 22, 1 .

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Ariel Gordon, Lucas D. Becerra, Mariano Fressoli. Potentialities and constraints in the relation between social innovation and public policies: some lessons from South America. Ecology and Society. 2017; 22 (4):1.

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Ariel Gordon; Lucas D. Becerra; Mariano Fressoli. 2017. "Potentialities and constraints in the relation between social innovation and public policies: some lessons from South America." Ecology and Society 22, no. 4: 1.

Journal article
Published: 01 May 2013 in Colombia Internacional
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This article aims to systematize and articulate, within a theoretical proposal, the problems emerging from the absence of a conceptual framework that can account for international economy, politics and security dynamics and processes of peripheral countries. The article presents a proposal of a conceptual and methodological framework called peripheral realist constructivism. This framework arises from the triangulation, within a systemic approach, of notions of realism and constructivism, tailored from a South's view. Beginning with a basic typology, the analysis deployed here finds that the international system is the relational outcome (material and notional) of its component units: the system is co-constructed in different senses for central and peripheral agents. Then, the framework allows analyze the behavior of the units by understanding how perceptions of threat and benefit are generated at the systemic level. Finally, two analytical models are constructed for understanding political and economic dynamics that streamline associative dynamics in the peripheries

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Lucas Becerra. Hacia un marco constructivista realista para el análisis de las relaciones internacionales desde las periferias. Colombia Internacional 2013, 79 -126.

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Lucas Becerra. Hacia un marco constructivista realista para el análisis de las relaciones internacionales desde las periferias. Colombia Internacional. 2013; (78):79-126.

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Lucas Becerra. 2013. "Hacia un marco constructivista realista para el análisis de las relaciones internacionales desde las periferias." Colombia Internacional , no. 78: 79-126.

Journal article
Published: 01 October 2012 in Science and Public Policy
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This paper undertakes a critical analysis of the strategies for fighting social exclusion currently applied in Latin America, with regard to science and technology (S&T) policy and the local production of technologies oriented to social inclusion. It considers two of the most significant countries (Brazil and Argentina) in terms of: economic growth, increase in R&D investments, and poverty-reduction programs during the last decade. However, this scenario contrasts with the persisting inequality in income distribution, as well as with persisting structural shortcomings. After a review of the economic growth and S&T policy trends (and the unresolved problem of structural exclusion) the paper examines the inadequacy of local S&T agendas concerning population needs and the problems involved in the performance of currently available technologies for social inclusion. The paper ends with an analytical–normative section related to strategic aspects of potential solutions to development and ex/inclusion issues.

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Hernán Thomas; Mariano Fressoli; Lucas Becerra. Science and technology policy and social ex/inclusion: Analyzing opportunities and constraints in Brazil and Argentina. Science and Public Policy 2012, 39, 579 -591.

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Hernán Thomas, Mariano Fressoli, Lucas Becerra. Science and technology policy and social ex/inclusion: Analyzing opportunities and constraints in Brazil and Argentina. Science and Public Policy. 2012; 39 (5):579-591.

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Hernán Thomas; Mariano Fressoli; Lucas Becerra. 2012. "Science and technology policy and social ex/inclusion: Analyzing opportunities and constraints in Brazil and Argentina." Science and Public Policy 39, no. 5: 579-591.