The Argentine silent majority : middle classes, politics, violence, and memory in the seventies / Sebastián Carassai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carassai, Sebastián, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle class--Political activity--Argentina--History--20th century.

Middle class.

Political violence--Argentina--History--20th century.

Political violence.

Argentina--Politics and government--1955-1983.

Argentina.

Argentina--History--1955-1983.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In The Argentine Silent Majority, Sebastián Carassai focuses on middle-class culture and politics in Argentina from the end of the 1960s. By considering the memories and ideologies of middle-class Argentines who did not get involved in political struggles, he expands thinking about the era to the larger society that activists and direct victims of state terror were part of and claimed to represent. Carassai conducted interviews with 200 people, mostly middle-class non-activists, but also journalists, politicians, scholars, and artists who were politically active during the 1970s. T

Contents:

Political culture

Waiting for violence

Social violence (1969-1974)

Armed violence (1970-1977)

State violence (1974-1982)

A model kit

Desire and violence (1969-1975).

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822376576

0822376571

OCLC:

873034788