CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Volpintesta, Lucas Fernando |
|---|---|
| Title | Failure, democratization, neoliberalism: the rise of Argentinian declinism and the making of contemporary Argentina (1983-2001) |
| Summary | In this thesis, we will study how Argentinian declinism, a type of pessimist discourse about Argentinian history and the national identity of its people, has been used by different sociopolitical actors to understand and influence the trajectory of democratization and neoliberalism in the 1983-2001 period. We will posit that discourse on Argentinian decline has been used as (a) a highly popular way to make the country’s historical trajectory legible and (b) as a rhetorical device deployed by the main political coalitions during our period of study (Alfonsinism, Menemism). Last but not least, we will suggest in which ways the tropes that inform Argentinian declinism can have a pernicious influence on the social sciences. Our eclectic methodology combines insights from intellectual history, discourse analysis, anthropology, public history, Argentinian historiography, and nationalism studies. The primary sources we will work with are historical texts, editorials, op-eds, movies, documentaries, presidential speeches, video essays, memoirs, and parliamentary debates. |
| Supervisor | Trencsényi, Balázs; Zorek, Bruno |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/volpintesta_lucas.pdf |
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