Results of the Call for Essays "50 Years After the Civic-Military Coup in Argentina"
The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) announces the results of the Call for Essays "50 years after the civic-military coup in Argentina", promoted together with the CLACSO Member Centers of Argentina and the National Interuniversity Council (CIN), with the support of the National University of Rosario (UNR), the Metropolitan University for Education and Work (UMET), the National University of Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and the South Atlantic Islands (UNTDF), the Institute of Social Studies in Context of Inequalities of the National University of José C. Paz (IESCODE-UNPAZ), the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires (FSoc, UBA), the Interdisciplinary School of Higher Social Studies of the National University of San Martín (EIDAES-UNSAM), and the Cultural Center of Cooperation (CCC).
Five decades after the 1976 coup, the event invited critical reflection on state terrorism and its legacies, at a time when Latin American and Caribbean democracies are facing a critical juncture, marked by the expansion of authoritarian discourses, the rise of the far right, and attacks on human rights policies. From this perspective, the initiative conceived of memory, truth, and justice as a contested field and the production of historical memory about state terrorism as a way to intervene in the present and project democratic futures.
The call was aimed at researchers, teachers, communicators, members of CLACSO member centers, activists and representatives of social, trade union and human rights organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as young people and undergraduate and postgraduate students.
The essays could address nine core themes, explicitly bringing memory and the present situation into dialogue.
The call for submissions received 77 registration forms, of which 37 were completed as applications and evaluated. The submissions were reviewed for their formal and administrative aspects and subsequently assessed by an International Editorial Committee, which evaluated their quality and relevance. As a result of this process, 13 essays were selected to be included in a digital book published in open access by CLACSO.
Selected essays
| Author(s) | Nationality | Essay title |
|---|---|---|
| Juan Carlos Bautista Murillo and Gabriel Pereira | Argentina | The dispute over Memory, Truth and Justice: legal mobilization and "Complete Memory" in the Contemporary Argentina |
| Alberto Enrique Pérez and Yussef Becher | Argentina | Quo Vadis Argentina? Political Economy and social legitimation of Argentine neoliberalism: From terror to merit, from merit to freedom |
| Yamila Noely Cáceres and Florence Etel Urcelay | Argentina | Memories of an early chainsaw: the blow of 1976 and the destruction of the project autonomous technological (the case of the Division FATE Electronics) |
| Chiara Castellani | Argentina | Fifty years after the coup: memory, justice and Democracy in dispute in Argentina contemporary |
| Javier Francisco Contreras Martínez | Peru | Crimes remembered, vows renewed: Fujimorism and the limits of memory as democratic tool in Latin America |
| Eliton Felipe de Souza | Brazil | The Battle of La Tablada: State Violence and international politics within the framework of democratic transition |
| Julieta González Dominguez, Julia Hang and Santiago Cueto Rúa | Argentina | Building memory from the field: activism human rights and disputes over the past recent in football clubs |
| Alejandra Erica Mountain | Argentina | Embroider the names, march with the names: researcher-teacher-activist positioning as a methodology of active memory in times of denialism |
| Ramiro Parodi | Argentina | How long does the post-dictatorship last? The future transparent of the national language |
| Ulises Gaspar Anil Petinaroli, Julieta Cassani and Paulina Ramirez | Argentina | The conditions of possibility for the Meeting between Grandmothers and their grandchildren: science, innovation, technology and will political |
| Martín Omar Recanatti | Argentina | How to think about absences in the country of Disappearances? The disappearance of people fifty years since the 1976 coup: persistences, transformations and horizons sociological |
| Anderson Rego | Brazil | When memory stops protecting Democracy: the Argentine case in the era algorithmic opacity |
| America Zepeda | Mexico | What did Kirchnerism do with memory? One An ethnographic approach to the transmission of collective memory fifty years after the coup |
As stated in the rules, the authors of the selected essays will also be invited to present their work in a virtual seminar.
CLACSO thanks all the people who participated in this call and congratulates the selected authors.
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