The politics of the past in an Argentine working-class neighbourhood / Lindsay DuBois.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DuBois, Lindsay, author.

Series:

Anthropological horizons ; 29.

Anthropological Horizons ; 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authoritarianism--Argentina--José Ingenieros II--History--20th century.

Authoritarianism.

Labor movement--Argentina--José Ingenieros II--20th century.

Labor movement.

José Ingenieros II (Argentina)--Social conditions--20th century.

José Ingenieros II (Argentina).

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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 on the people who lived through it." "DuBois's ethnography centres on Jose 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 Jose 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 study breaks new ground in its exploration of the complex relationships between identity, memory, class formation, neoliberalism, and state violence."--Jacket.

Contents:

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

""I""""J""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 14, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4426-9220-0

1-4426-8932-3

1-281-99227-5

9786611992279

1-4426-8211-6

OCLC:

1013949134