Rethinking the dictatorship: consensus, collaboration, and cooperation in Argentina, 1976-1983

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Recently scholars have begun to reassess the period of the last Argentina dictatorship by digging more deeply into how various sectors of society experienced military rule. Building upon narratives of repression and resistance, this panel asks questions about the wide variety of ways that Argentines understood and reacted to the social, economic, and political conditions that the country faced. How did sectors of Argentine civil society, including right-wing youth, conscripts, urban planners, and villeros accommodate and adapt to the conditions of life that the dictatorship imposed upon them? How did the state deploy propaganda to justify urban policies, including ones that sought to repatriate foreign residents of the villas? In what ways did the dictatorship demonstrate surprising continuities in social and political practices? Finally, how did the dictatorship deploy policies that gave legitimacy to their domination of national life and to the export of counter-subversive specialists and techniques abroad?

Sub Track

• History and Historiography

Session Organizer

• Jonathan D Ablard, Ithaca College

Chair

• Ernesto L Bohoslavsky, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento

Discussant

• Mark A Healey, University of Connecticut

Individual Presentations

• Sin pensar en las consecuencias: desertion from the army during the Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983) - Jonathan D Ablard, Ithaca College

• El IV Congreso de la Confederación Anticomunista Latinoamericana (Buenos Aires, 1980) - Ernesto L Bohoslavsky, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento

• “Revisioning Civil-State Relations under the Last Military Dictatorship in Argentina, 1976-1983” - Jennifer T Hoyt, Berry College