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This paper intends to analyze certain characteristics of social protest in Argentina in the nineties. More specifically, it deals with some focal points of interpretation which allow to consider the changes that took place as social mobilization in the country. During the eighties the transition process towards democracy showed a series of conflict focal points that were explored by researchers in terms of the emergence of new social movements; such as, for example, the movement for human rights. These focal points became the hypotheses for research work which enabled the organization of reflections on the social mobilization beyond the traditional studies focused on the notion of class. The nineties, however, show a progressive process of fragmentation of the protest that makes it very difficult to rebuild units or continuities of identity matrixes. This new stage may be grasped bearing in mind some general phenomena as, for example, the emergence of new subjects, new demands and new forms of protest. It becomes necessary, however, to discuss some lines that enable us to understand this fragmentation process in more specific terms. In this paper we shall consider the transformations that are typical of the protests for human rights in Argentina in two clearly defined aspects: on one hand, taking into account that this kind of protests, highly characteristic of the democratic transition stage, have contributed to define the core elements of the protest repertoire in the nineties; and on the other, setting some focal points of particularization and specification of this kind of protests that gave birth to new meanings of the idea of human rights and to the emergence of new conflict fields.

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