What development for Uruguay?: A multi-layered analysis of development dimensions and pathways

• In Event: Social Studies of Politics: State Affect? 2

Abstract

What Uruguay do we want? What development for the country would Uruguayans want? These are the triggering questions of this paper. The paper is based on a project held in 2015 aimed at discussing about these questions in different contexts: (i) a group of experts through a Delphi survey, (ii) a panel of lay citizens through a citizens dialogue at the local level, and (iii) some specific communities that are often excluded from these inquiries, such as young people from rural and urban settings, from different socio-economic levels; gay lesbian and trans-sexual; and afro-descendants through the implementation of a series of focus groups. In this paper, we only concentrate on the analysis of a public deliberation process held in Tacuarembo (a region of Uruguay) in 2015 by a group of 25 citizens. The paper analyzes the different dimensions of development, as well as the desired development trajectories emerged from this public. More broadly, it seeks to contribute to the discussion on wellbeing and development, and the different consensus and disagreements around them.

Authors

• Isabel Bortagaray, Universidad de la Republica

• Marila Lázaro

• Amalia Stuhldreher, Universidad de la República