During the period 1982–1999, a cohort of feminist cultural activists highlighted parallels between the political, gendered, racial, and linguistic frameworks used to justify state violence in Argen...

The sword, the pen, and the uterus: multidirectional feminist culture and the Argentine dictatorship of 1976–1983

In this article we investigate the modes in which transgressive Indigeneities folded in the so-called indio politico (the figure of the Indian as activist) inhabit the politicisation of the Indigen...

‘The Indian’ and ‘Politics’. Transgressive Indigeneities in Political Activism before and after State Terrorism in Argentina

Tango dancers in Buenos Aires milongas (dance clubs) create a mise-en-scene where intimacy and anonymity clash. Their tango and the rules of etiquette they practice share dissonant experiences of violence, exclusion, and trauma with an Argentine grotesque, the grotesco criollo.

Death Dressed As a Dancer: The Grotesque, Violence, and the Argentine Tango

The following paper discusses the course of Catriel’s people and their relationship with the Argentine government during the second half of the 19th century, especially between 1878 and 1886, when its leaders and some of their people were detained in the island Martin Garcia. Based on analysis of documents from the Archivo General de la Armada (AGA), the article attempts to analyze changes and continuities, especially the (in)feasibility of the status of ‘Indian friends’ as the Argentine nation state was consolidated, and whether these strategies could be replicated in the spaces where catrieleros were arrested, either by decision of the military or the indigenous people themselves, without losing sight of the context of subjugation and confinement imposed on the aborigines by the government.

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Los Catriel, de amigos a apresados. ¿El fin o la continuidad de una estrategia?

The debate on the different concepts to nominate or qualify the systematic annihilation of human groups (genocide, war, State Terrorism, crimes against humanity) has influenced the juridical, scholar and political fields, producing different consequences in the possibilities to appropriate or alienate the historical experience. Focusing in the Argentinian case, the work discusses the ethical and political consequences in the uses of such different concepts and also their effects in the collective identities, in the construction of sense and in the relationship between memory, present and action.

Sobre conceptos, memorias e identidades: guerra, genocidio y/o terrorismo de Estado en Argentina On Concepts, Memories and Identities: war, genocide and/or State Terrorism in Argentina

Existe una gran cantidad de trabajos que abordan el estudio de la ultima dictadura dentro de una perspectiva en la que se compara el caso argentino con otras experiencias traumaticas del siglo XX como fueron el holocausto, los regimenes fascistas europeos y las dictaduras del Cono Sur. En un gran porcentaje, los abordajes comparativos que se han realizado han tomado como eje central el trauma que han dejado estas experiencias. La inefabilidad del periodo estudiado es lo que hace equiparable a los distintos casos. El estudio que realiza Daniel Feierstein se encuadra dentro de esta perspectiva de analisis al comparar la dictadura militar argentina (1976-1983) con la dictadura nazi.

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Diego Marinozzi

Papers

FEIERSTEIN, Daniel, El genocidio como práctica social. Entre el nazismo y la experiencia argentina, Fondo Cultura Económica, Bs. As., 2007