Making citizens in Argentina /edited by Benjamin Bryce and David M.K. Sheinin.

Making citizens in Argentina /edited by Benjamin Bryce and David M.K. Sheinin. - Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, (c)2017. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (1 PDF (vi, 263 pages).). - Pitt Latin American series .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction. Citizenship in twentieth-century Argentina / 1. Citizenship and ethnicity : social welfare and paternalism in Buenos Aires, 1880-1930 / 2. "Argentine man" : human evolution and cultural citizenship in Argentina, 1911-1940 / 3. Nation, race, and Latin Americanism in Argentina : the life and times of Manuel Ugarte, 1900s-1960s / 4. Fitness and the national body : modernity, physical culture, and gender, 1930-1945 / 5. Melting the pot? Peronism, Jewish-Argentines and the struggle for diversity / 6. Transnational spaces : intellectuals, politics, and the state in Cold War Argentina, 1950-1963 / 7. How dictatorship survived democracy : the persistence of proceso law in 1970s and 1980s Argentina / 8. Popular politics, the Catholic Church, and the making of Argentina's transition to democracy, 1978-1983 / Epilogue. Argentina in the cul-de-sac (again)? / Benjamin Bryce and David M.K. Sheinin -- Benjamin Bryce -- Carolyne R. Larson -- Eduardo Elena -- Andr�es Horacio Reggiani -- Raanan Rein -- Jorge A. N�allim -- David M.K. Sheinin -- Jennifer Adair -- Jeremy Adelman.

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.



9780822982852


Citizenship--History.--Argentina


Electronic Books.

JL2083 / .M355 2017