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• Title: Letting in the Light: The Emergence of an Information-Based Civil Society in Post-Dictatorship Argentina, 1984-2004.
• Author : History of Education Review
• Release Date : January 01, 2006
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 246 KB

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In 1983, democratic elections ended a seven-year military dictatorship in Argentina, bringing the end of a regime calling itself the 'Process of National Reorganisation,' and with it, the end of the Dirty War, the state's campaign to eliminate what it labelled 'subversive elements' within Argentine society. Estimates suggest that as many as 30,000 people may have died as a result of the military state's terror tactics, the majority of them kidnapped, tortured, and disappeared. As a result of the traumatic experience of military rule, the spectre of dictatorship has never really left Argentina. As of the early twenty-first century, government officials still referred to Argentina's ongoing 'transitional democracy' in their reports and findings. (1) Argentine anthropologist Sofia Tiscornia underlines the point, asserting that change is only in process in Argentina, that it has not been accomplished. 'The past coexists with us in the present,' she states. 'An ex-torturer is today governor of Tucuman, [former torturers] are candidates for elections, collaborators lead journalistic programmes, and they look like pillars of democracy'. (2) As Argentine writer Griselda Gambaro highlights, it is as hard to imagine Argentina without the dictatorship as it is to imagine Germany without Adolf Hitler. (3) Argentine novelist Alicia Kozameh addresses the same point. 'In my country, there is [no such thing as] 'post-authoritarianism," she writes. 'The concept does not work... My country does not fit the category'. She acknowledges that she can accept the label of 'post-dictatorship' to describe the state of Argentina in the years since its transition to democracy, but that 'post-authoritarian' is inappropriate. 'There are many things going on in my country,' Kozameh states, 'and they are all related to authoritarianism'. (4) At the time of this article's writing, just over twenty years have passed since Argentina began its transition to democracy, and yet, many agree, most of the issues that made the dictatorship possible have not been dealt with adequately. 'The 'blood' memory and unspeakable horrors of the past reappear as a recurring obsession,' sociologist Laura Kalmanowiecki notes, 'even among those who want to heal society's wounds'.' (5) Kozameh agrees; the democracy, she argues, was founded on the basis of forgetting what she labels the 'genocide' of the military dictatorship of 1976 to 1983. 'We need to remember first,' she states. 'We need justice first'. (6)

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