INVESTIGADORES
MANZANO Adriana Valeria
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Making Third World Argentina: Place, Emotions, and Revolutionary Politics, 1966--1976
Autor/es:
MANZANO, VALERIA
Lugar:
Boston
Reunión:
Congreso; 125th Annual Meeting, American Historical Association; 2011
Institución organizadora:
American Historical Association
Resumen:
On the eve of the 1970s, in Argentina, as in most of
Latin America, large numbers of young people engaged with
anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist revolutionary political projects.
In their efforts to carve out those projects, young women and men built
up a new narrative of place and nationhood that contested the dominant
tropes of a racially and socially homogeneous nation, that at the same
time was cosmopolitan, urban, and modern. Combining the examination of
political and student presses, documentaries, music, and oral
testimonies, this paper reconstructs how young people produced a
displacement, both in geographical and socio-cultural terms, towards an
Argentina that was the antithesis of those hegemonic representations. I
argue that those geographical and socio-cultural displacements
constituted a key arena through which young militants and activists
shaped a new sensibility, dominated by the emotions of indignation and
shame. That new sensibility was articulated with the ways in which young
people discovered and imagined a new place: an Argentina that in
social, racial, and cultural terms was not exceptional among its Latin
American neighbors and that, moreover, fully belonged to the Third
World.