- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846312380
- eISBN:
- 9781846317149
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846317149.003
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter re-examines the relationship between Perónism and nationalism, focusing on the politics of history. It argues that F attempted to strike a precarious balance between the various existing ...
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This chapter re-examines the relationship between Perónism and nationalism, focusing on the politics of history. It argues that F attempted to strike a precarious balance between the various existing forms of nationalism, seizing in particular on those elements that had already become largely accepted notions and symbols of what it meant to be Argentine. The simultaneous conversion of these into Perónist symbols formed the basis of Perón's anti-pluralist claim that his movement was the only legitimate expression of national identity. At the same time, the regime sought to marginalize those who sought to use nationalism for their own political purposes.Less
This chapter re-examines the relationship between Perónism and nationalism, focusing on the politics of history. It argues that F attempted to strike a precarious balance between the various existing forms of nationalism, seizing in particular on those elements that had already become largely accepted notions and symbols of what it meant to be Argentine. The simultaneous conversion of these into Perónist symbols formed the basis of Perón's anti-pluralist claim that his movement was the only legitimate expression of national identity. At the same time, the regime sought to marginalize those who sought to use nationalism for their own political purposes.
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846312380
- eISBN:
- 9781846317149
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846317149.004
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter examines the implications that changes in narratives about national history and identity between 1955 and 1966 have had for the understanding of nationalism in twentieth-century ...
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This chapter examines the implications that changes in narratives about national history and identity between 1955 and 1966 have had for the understanding of nationalism in twentieth-century Argentina. Bent on eradicating what they saw as the cancer of Perónism from Argentina's political culture, yet lacking a popular mandate to do so, the uncompromisingly ‘liberal’ leaders of the Liberating Revolution turned to the most formulaic version of mitrismo to legitimize their power. Their discourse rested on an association of Perónism with nacionalismo, which, in the light of these currents' conflictive relationship before 1955, was exaggerated but, thanks to Aramburu and Rojas' policies, became increasingly real. In reaction, the Perónist rank and file began to appropriate revisionism for its own purposes, employing it as a political weapon to counter official narratives. By 1958 the dividing lines between these contrary discourses were sufficiently entrenched to hinder the newly elected President Frondizi from successfully moulding an ‘integrationist’ synthesis. The politics of history were thus both symptom and cause of a deepening crisis of political legitimacy.Less
This chapter examines the implications that changes in narratives about national history and identity between 1955 and 1966 have had for the understanding of nationalism in twentieth-century Argentina. Bent on eradicating what they saw as the cancer of Perónism from Argentina's political culture, yet lacking a popular mandate to do so, the uncompromisingly ‘liberal’ leaders of the Liberating Revolution turned to the most formulaic version of mitrismo to legitimize their power. Their discourse rested on an association of Perónism with nacionalismo, which, in the light of these currents' conflictive relationship before 1955, was exaggerated but, thanks to Aramburu and Rojas' policies, became increasingly real. In reaction, the Perónist rank and file began to appropriate revisionism for its own purposes, employing it as a political weapon to counter official narratives. By 1958 the dividing lines between these contrary discourses were sufficiently entrenched to hinder the newly elected President Frondizi from successfully moulding an ‘integrationist’ synthesis. The politics of history were thus both symptom and cause of a deepening crisis of political legitimacy.
