Making Citizens in Argentina: 353 (Pitt Latin American Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822964899 ISBN 13: 9780822964896

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Benjamin Bryce is assistant professor in the department of history at the University of British Columbia.

David M. K. Sheinin is professor of history at Trent University and académico correspondiente of the Academia Nacional de la Historia de la República Argentina.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822964899
• ISBN 13: 9780822964896
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Bryce Benjamin, Sheinin David M. K.