Table Of ContentSTUDIES OF THE AMERICAS
The Argentinian
Dictatorship and its
Legacy
Rethinking the Proceso
Edited by
Juan Grigera · Luciana Zorzoli
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The Argentinian
Dictatorship
and its Legacy
Rethinking the Proceso
Editors
Juan Grigera Luciana Zorzoli
Department of International Research Associate (SOAS)
Development and Postdoctoral Fellow (CONICET)
King’s College London Instituto de Investigaciones en
London, UK Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales
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La Plata, Argentina
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cknowledgements
The essays in this volume largely derive from presentations at the
Rethinking the “Proceso.” The Argentinian dictatorship in perspective
(1976–1983) Conference held at the Institute of Americas, University
College London, March 24, 2016.
The funding for the conference itself was provided by the Institute of
Americas. Many individuals played key roles in bringing this volume to
fruition: We especially thank Prof. Maxine Molyneux who was more than
generous with her time and advise and Prof. Jonathan Bell director of
the Institute. We also thank several senior scholars who willingly served
as anonymous peer reviewers.
Special thanks are due as well to all of the authors for their profes-
sional work and to all the other participants of the conference who
contributed to the debates reflected in the chapters that constitute this
publication. While gratefully acknowledging the assistance and guidance
provided, we take final responsibility for the book, which necessarily
reflects different views and opinions, and so does not in any way con-
stitute an end to the rethinking of the issues under scrutiny but rather a
summary and an invitation for further developments.
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ontents
1 Introduction 1
Juan Grigera and Luciana Zorzoli
2 A Foundation of Terror: Tucumán and the Proceso,
1975–1983 23
James H. Shrader
3 Anti-subversive Repression and Dictatorship
in Argentina: An Approach from Northern Patagonia 47
Pablo Scatizza
4 Economic Policy and Global Change: The Puzzle
of Industrial Policy Under the Proceso 67
Juan Grigera
5 Law-Making and Federalism in Argentina’s Last
Dictatorship 93
Alejandro Bonvecchi and Emilia Simison
6 State, Filmmaking, and Sexuality During the Military
Dictatorship in Argentina (1976–1983) 123
Débora D’Antonio
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7 Rethinking Trade Unions 147
Luciana Zorzoli
8 Peronism in the Transition and Peronism in Transition:
From the End of the Reorganization Process to the
Peronist Renovation (1981–1989) 173
Joaquín Baeza Belda
9 Malvinas/Falklands War: Changes in the Idea
of Nationhood, the Local and National, in a
Post-Dictatorship Context—Argentina, 1982–2007 197
Federico Lorenz
Index 211
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otes on ontributors
Joaquín Baeza Belda holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of
Salamanca (Spain). He also has a Masters in Latin American Studies from
the Instituto de Iberoamérica at the University of Salamanca. Belda was
a fellow at the University of Liverpool and was the recipient of a Young
Researcher grant issued by the Junta of Castilla y León. His research
focuses on recent Argentinian history, democratic transitions, and politi-
cal parties.
Alejandro Bonvecchi holds a Ph.D. in Government from the University
of Essex. He works as Adjunct Researcher at Consejo Nacional de
Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas and Assistant Professor at the
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT). His research has appeared in
Comparative Politics, Journal of Politics in Latin America, Latin American
Politics and Society, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Presidential Studies
Quarterly, and Publius: The Journal of Federalism. He authored the books
¿Quién decide la política social en América Latina? Un estudio de economía
política basado en el análisis de redes sociales. Washington, DC: Banco Inter-
Americano de Desarrollo-David Rockefeller Center for Latin American
Studies Harvard University (Co-edited with Carlos Scartascini and Julia
Johannsen); Los límites de la voluntad. Buenos Aires: Paidós-Planeta-Ariel,
Colección Ariel Historia. (With Marcos Novaro y Nicolás Cherny) and
(Co-edited with Ana Maria Mustapic and Javier Zelaznik) Los legisladores
en el Congreso argentino: prácticas y estrategias, Buenos Aires: Instituto
Torcuato Di Tella, 2012.
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Débora D’Antonio holds a Ph.D. in History of the University of
Buenos Aires (UBA). There, she also is a professor and researcher
of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Gender Studies (IIEGE) of the
National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). She
is an Undergraduate and PostGraduate Professor of the UBA and has
given different seminars in other national universities and ones from the
Southern Cone. She is specialized in the study of the State’s repressive
activity in the recent Argentinian history and its connection between
the studies of gender and sexuality. Also, she is author of the book La
prisión en los años setenta: Historia, género y política (2016) and compiler
of Violencia, espionaje y represión estatal: seis estudios de caso sobre el pasado
reciente argentino (2018) and Deseo y represión: Sexualidad, Género y
Estado en la historia reciente Argentina (2015).
Juan Grigera is Lecturer in the Political Economy of Development at
the Department of International Development, King’s College London.
He completed a Ph.D. from the University of Buenos Aires with support
from the Argentinean National Scientific and Technical Research Council
(CONICET), after being awarded an M.Sc. in Development Studies from
the London School of Economics. Between 2014 and 2017, he was British
Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Americas, UCL.
Federico Lorenz holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences (UNGS-IDES)
and a B.A. in History from the National University of Luján. He is an
Associate Researcher at National Scientific and Technical Research
Committee (CONICET) based in the Instituto de Historia Argentina
y Americana “Dr. Emilio Ravignani.” He was awarded a research grant
from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation for developing a pro-
ject about Malvinas/Falklands War Experiences through amateur photo-
graphs and war letters. Throughout his career as a teacher and historian,
he has focused in Argentine recent history, such as political violence and
the Malvinas/Falklands War, and the relationship between history, mem-
ory and education. He is a specialist in the social history of the war. He
traveled twice to the Malvinas/Falklands as part of his research about the
memories of the 1982 war. He was Director of the Museo Malvinas e
Islas del Atlántico Sur (2016–2018).
Pablo Scatizza holds a Ph.D. in History from the Universidad Torcuato
Di Tella. He is Associate Professor at the Universidad Nacional del
Comahue. He had published several articles about repressive dynamics
