Abstract

YANN, Cristal. Student movement at the University of Buenos Aires in the end of Argentina’s last dictatorship (1982-83). Sociohistórica [online]. 2017, n.40, pp.00-00. ISSN 1852-1606.

In this article we investigate the revival of the student movement at the University of Buenos Aires between 1982 and 1983, and its relationship to the dynamics of social conflict, the University environment and the general politics of Argentina at the end of its last military dictatorship. We focus both mobilization processes and the reorganization of student centers after years of banishment. In this context, the reappearance of certain practices linked to the preceding decades combined with a critical assessment of the student movement on its recent past, under the new hegemony of Franja Morada which was influenced and also had an impact on the progress of Raul Alfonsin in his way to presidency and on the consolidation of a new "democratic ideal". Starting from these issues, this article aims to provide elements in order to establish a more complex relationship between factors of continuity and change in the early post-dictatorship years in Argentina

Keywords : Student movement; University of Buenos Aires; Military dictatorship; Post-dictatorship.