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:	9780822982852
Publisher:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date:	07/21/2017
Series:	Pitt Latin American Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Benjamin Bryce (Editor)
Benjamin Bryce is assistant professor in the department of history at the University of British Columbia.

David M. K. Sheinin (Editor)
David M. K. Sheinin is professor of history at Trent University and académico correspondiente of the Academia Nacional de la Historia de la República Argentina.

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Argentina - Benjamin Bryce and David M. K. Sheinin Chapter 1. Citizenship and Ethnicity: Social Welfare and Paternalism in Buenos Aires, 1880–1930 - Benjamin Bryce Chapter 2. “Argentine Man”: Human Evolution and Cultural Citizenship in Argentina, 1911–1940 - Carolyne R. Larson Chapter 3. Nation, Race, and Latin Americanism in Argentina: The Life and Times of Manuel Ugarte, 1900s–1960s - Eduardo Elena Chapter 4. Fitness and the National Body: Modernity, Physical Culture, and Gender, 1930–1945 - Andrés Horacio Reggiani Chapter 5. Melting the Pot?: Peronism, Jewish-Argentines and the Struggle for Diversity - Raanan Rein Chapter 6. Transnational Spaces: Intellectuals, Politics, and the State in Cold War Argentina, 1950–1963 - Jorge A. Nállim Chapter 7. How Dictatorship Survived Democracy: The Persistence of Proceso Law in 1970s and 1980s Argentina - David M. K. Sheinin Chapter 8. Popular Politics, the Catholic Church, and the Making of Argentina’s Transition to Democracy, 1978–1983 - Jennifer Adair Epilogue. Argentina in the Cul-de-Sac (Again)? - Jeremy Adelman Notes Contributors Index

Editorial Reviews

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

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.

Ohio State University Donna Guy

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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