A growing body of recent research demonstrates that theatrical productions and performances were not only subject to repression and subject to censorship during Argentina’s last military dictatorship, but also served as spaces for the expression of dissent. In the case of the city of Santa Fe and its conurbation, it is possible to appreciate how individual and collective actors in the theatrical field navigated a constant interplay of restrictions and authorizations with local and provincial authorities. Building on the approaches undertaken in previous works, this paper aims to study the strategies followed by some members of the Santa Fe cultural space in the face of public policies and offer conceptualizations that allow for their understanding.
How did the military dictatorship reshape the Argentine economy? For more than half a century, this question has been answered primarily in macroeconomic terms. The restructuring of the local economy promoted by the military left behind a dismantled industry, a more unequal social structure and an enormously multiplied public foreign debt. However, the effects of this reform program were not limited to the economic structure. Household economic practices were also affected, as a result of the combination of the state’s deregulatory impulse with the conditions created by continuing economic problems and longer-term trends. One expression of these changes was the growing importance of the financial system for household economies; the other was the incorporation of the dollar into various markets and into the financial repertoires of different social groups. This article focuses on the analysis of both processes.
The teaching of the last dictatorship has been one of the strongest challenges facing the Argentine education system. And if at some point that historical process appeared unquestionably interpreted as a stage in which “state terrorism” was deployed, a closer exploration of the past reveals some tensions while a look to the future shows renewed challenges. Focusing on the secondary level, and through the differentiation of successive stages marked by political, judicial and memorial movements, the paper will show that this school question had a direction marked by the State -with lights and shadows- but also had various appropriations by institutions and teachers.
This article explores the characteristics of state repression in twentieth-century Argentina, through its continuities and changes, with the aim of in serting the State terrorism of the seventies into a deeper historical weft. On the basis of an exhaus tive bibliographic survey, added to the results of our own research, different keys to analytical reflection are studied, through a series of temporalities, in the long, medium and short term. In the different sections, the historical processes of construction of the “internal enemy”, the violent responses of the State, the mechanisms of exception and the growing power of the Armed Forces in internal politics, in articulation with their role in repression, are addressed. The article aims to make a contribution to the development of future proposals and lines of research on the history of repression and extreme violence in Argentina.
This article addresses the repressive violence, labor conflict, and the first attempts at union re organization experienced by the banking staff of Buenos Aires during the first years of the civil-military dictatorship (1976-79). From an approach that considers the dimensions of class and gender, it analyzes the changes that occurred in labor conditions and in the modalities of repressive action exercised on the union, as well as the strategies outlined by the workers to confront the conditions imposed by the dictatorship. Likewise, based on a wide range of sources –including publications, archival documents, and oral interviews–, it investigates the situation of bank workers within the union space. In this way, by recovering the agency of the workers, it seeks to shed light on a little-explored period of the history of banking unions in the City of Buenos Aires.
