Making Citizens in Argentina

by Benjamin Bryce (Editor), David M. K. Sheinin (Editor)

Overview

Making Citizens in Argentina charts the evolving meanings of citizenship in Argentina from the 1880s to the 1980s. Against the backdrop of immigration, science, race, sport, populist rule, and dictatorship, the contributors analyze the power of the Argentine state and other social actors to set the boundaries of citizenship. They also address how Argentines contested the meanings of citizenship over time, and demonstrate how citizenship came to represent a great deal more than nationality or voting rights. In Argentina, it defined a person’s relationships with, and expectations of, the state. Citizenship conditioned the rights and duties of Argentines and foreign nationals living in the country. Through the language of citizenship, Argentines explained to one another who belonged and who did not. In the cultural, moral, and social requirements of citizenship, groups with power often marginalized populations whose societal status was more tenuous. Making Citizens in Argentina also demonstrates how workers, politicians, elites, indigenous peoples, and others staked their own claims to citizenship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822964896
Publisher:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date:	06/19/2017
Series:	Pitt Latin American Series
Edition description:	1
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Benjamin Bryce is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Northern British Columbia. He is the author of To Belong in Buenos Aires: Germans, Argentines, and the Rise of a Pluralist Society (Stanford University Press, 2018). He is also the coeditor of Entangling Migration History: Borderlands and Transnationalism in the United States and Canada (University Press of Florida, 2015).
 
David M. K. Sheinin is professor of history at Trent University. He is the author of Consent of the Damned: Ordinary Argentinians in the Dirty War, the editor of Sports Culture in Latin American History, and the author or editor of several of other books. In 2005, he was appointed a member of the Argentine National Academy of History (the only Canadian ever so designated).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Argentina Benjamin Bryce David M. K. Sheinin 1

Chapter 1 Citizenship and Ethnicity: Social Welfare and Paternalism in Buenos Aires, 1880-1930 Benjamin Bryce 21

Chapter 2 "Argentine Man": Human Evolution and Cultural Citizenship in Argentina, 1911-1940 Carolyne R. Larson 43

Chapter 3 Nation, Race, and Latin Americanism in Argentina: The Life and Times of Manuel Ugarte, 1900s-1960s Eduardo Elena 62

Chapter 4 Fitness and the National Body: Modernity, Physical Culture, and Gender, 1930-1945 Andrés Horacio Reggiani 83

Chapter 5 Melting the Pot? Peronism, Jewish-Argentines and the Struggle for Diversity Raanan Rein 102

Chapter 6 Transnational Spaces: Intellectuals, Politics, and the State in Cold War Argentina, 1950-1963 Jorge A. Nállim 119

Chapter 7 How Dictatorship Survived Democracy: The Persistence of Proceso Law in 1970s and 1980s Argentina David M. K. Sheinin 139

Chapter 8 Popular Politics, the Catholic Church, and the Making of Argentina's Transition to Democracy, 1978-1983 Jennifer Adair 161

Epilogue: Argentina in the Cul-de-Sac (Again)? Jeremy Adelman 180

Notes 197

Contributors 253

Index 257

Editorial Reviews

This exciting volume will become required reading not only in courses relating to the history of Argentina, but also in those surrounding citizenship in a cross-cultural perspective. I am impressed by the quality of essays and the breadth of topics that touch upon how not only states, but also diverse groups have pushed for changes in definitions.  Bounded by identities rooted in immigration, gender, science, political parties, and nationalism, this book forces the reader to conceptualize national identities, and hence, national history at its core.”
—Donna Guy, Ohio State University

“This volume, an important contribution on a subject that until recently had rarely been explored so systematically, constitutes further evidence of the recent productive transformations in the historiography of twentieth-century Argentina.”
—Hispanic American Historical Review
 

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