Una etnografía itinerante sobre el terrorismo en Argentina: paradas, trayectorias y disputas

In Argentina, the passing of the “Anti-Terrorism Law” in 2007 brought the notion of terrorism back into the political arena. However, while, on an international level, the hegemonic ideology that sustains the “fight against terrorism” was increasingly successful as a guiding principle of the “intern...

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Main Authors: Eva Muzzopappa, Ana Margarita Ramos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá) 2017-09-01
Series:Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología
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Online Access:http://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/doi/full/10.7440/antipoda29.2017.06
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description In Argentina, the passing of the “Anti-Terrorism Law” in 2007 brought the notion of terrorism back into the political arena. However, while, on an international level, the hegemonic ideology that sustains the “fight against terrorism” was increasingly successful as a guiding principle of the “international community” and justification for the asymmetric political and economic interventions by some States in others, that ideology had different connotations in Argentina. To explain this particularity, this study focuses on the multiplicity of opposing ideological trends which struggle to define terrorism on a domestic level. After a brief review of the main historical stages of its use in Argentina, we discuss failed attempts to apply the law. We utilize an itinerant ethnography which combines an analysis of legislation and the attitude of the mass media with field work, in order to follow the path the notion of terrorism took from the period before the Law was passed and the one which succeeded it and the opposing ideological tendencies which have sought to define the meaning of danger, violence and security during those periods. Our purpose is to define the boundaries between a political community and its threatening otherness.
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spelling doaj.art-8776072aa291426eb1dee2e96b65041b2022-12-22T00:21:06ZengUniversidad de los Andes (Bogotá)Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología1900-54072011-42732017-09-012912314210.7440/antipoda29.2017.06Una etnografía itinerante sobre el terrorismo en Argentina: paradas, trayectorias y disputasEva Muzzopappa0Ana Margarita Ramos1CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, ArgentinaCONICET, Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, ArgentinaIn Argentina, the passing of the “Anti-Terrorism Law” in 2007 brought the notion of terrorism back into the political arena. However, while, on an international level, the hegemonic ideology that sustains the “fight against terrorism” was increasingly successful as a guiding principle of the “international community” and justification for the asymmetric political and economic interventions by some States in others, that ideology had different connotations in Argentina. To explain this particularity, this study focuses on the multiplicity of opposing ideological trends which struggle to define terrorism on a domestic level. After a brief review of the main historical stages of its use in Argentina, we discuss failed attempts to apply the law. We utilize an itinerant ethnography which combines an analysis of legislation and the attitude of the mass media with field work, in order to follow the path the notion of terrorism took from the period before the Law was passed and the one which succeeded it and the opposing ideological tendencies which have sought to define the meaning of danger, violence and security during those periods. Our purpose is to define the boundaries between a political community and its threatening otherness.http://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/doi/full/10.7440/antipoda29.2017.06Thesaurus: ideologyStatelegislationAuthor's keywords: terrorismitinerant ethnography
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Una etnografía itinerante sobre el terrorismo en Argentina: paradas, trayectorias y disputas
Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología
Thesaurus: ideology
State
legislation
Author's keywords: terrorism
itinerant ethnography
title Una etnografía itinerante sobre el terrorismo en Argentina: paradas, trayectorias y disputas
title_full Una etnografía itinerante sobre el terrorismo en Argentina: paradas, trayectorias y disputas
title_fullStr Una etnografía itinerante sobre el terrorismo en Argentina: paradas, trayectorias y disputas
title_full_unstemmed Una etnografía itinerante sobre el terrorismo en Argentina: paradas, trayectorias y disputas
title_short Una etnografía itinerante sobre el terrorismo en Argentina: paradas, trayectorias y disputas
title_sort una etnografia itinerante sobre el terrorismo en argentina paradas trayectorias y disputas
topic Thesaurus: ideology
State
legislation
Author's keywords: terrorism
itinerant ethnography
url http://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/doi/full/10.7440/antipoda29.2017.06
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