The Politics of the Past in an Argentine Working-Class Neighbourhood / / Lindsay DuBois.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: DuBois, Lindsay,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Anthropological Horizons
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 p.)

The Argentine dictatorship of 1976 to 1983 set out to transform Argentine society. Employing every means at its disposal - including rampant violation of human rights, union busting, and regressive economic policies - the dictatorship aimed to create its own kind of order. Lindsay DuBois's The Politics of the Past explores the lasting impact of this authoritarian transformative project for the people who lived through it. DuBois's ethnography centres on José Ingenieros, a Buenos Aires neighbourhood founded in a massive squatter invasion in the early 1970s, and describes how the military government's actions largely subdued a politically engaged community. DuBois traces how state repression and community militancy are remembered in José Ingenieros and how the tangled and ambiguous legacies of the past continued to shape ordinary people's lives years after the collapse of the military regime. This rich and evocative study breaks new ground in its exploration of the complex relationships between identity, memory, class formation, neoliberalism, and state violence.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. 'This Is Not a Shanty Town' -- Histories -- Chapter 3. The Toma, Its Origins, and the Early Years, 1968-1976 -- Chapter 4. Repression and Reorganization, 1976-1982 -- Chapter 5. After Reorganization, 1982-1992 -- Memories -- Chapter 6. The History Workshop: An Exercise in Popular Memory -- Chapter 7. Narrative Truths -- Chapter 8. Of Memory, Trash, and Politics -- Chapter 9. Conclusion: The Weight of History -- Epilogue -- Appendix A. Peronist Identities -- Appendix B. Chronology -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index