Abstract

JEMIO, Ana Sofía. Una revisión crítica del concepto “Estado terrorista”. Sociohistórica [online]. 2021, n.48, e145. ISSN 1852-1606.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.24215/18521606e145.

In 1983, when the last Argentine military dictatorship was ending, Eduardo Luis Duhalde created the concept “terrorist state” to characterize the new repressive model created by the last dictatorship. This concept (and its term related state terrorism) transcended the years: today it is a central word in disputes over the meaning of the recent past. These disputes have overshadowed (and sometimes muddied) the debate over the potentiality of the term as a theoretical-methodological tool. More than 30 years after its creation, what potential and limits does the concept have to characterize the forms of state violence in the last military dictatorship? This article seeks to answer this question by reviewing the main criticisms received for this concept and proposing a rereading of the term.

Keywords : Terrorist state; Argentina; State violence; Military dictatorship.

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