Abstract

MONTERO, María Lorena. Political Violence and Social Disciplining during the Last Military Dictatorship in Argentina. Forms of Repression in Bahía Blanca, Argentina (1976-1977). Historelo.rev.hist.reg.local [online]. 2019, vol.11, n.21, pp.58-89. ISSN 2145-132X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/historelo.v11n21.69327.

From a perspective that recognizes the local articulation of processes of national scope, this article analyses the characteristics of the forms ofrepression in a subdivision of the 5th Army Corps, headquartered in Bahía Blanca (Argentina) during the last military dictatorship in Argentina. To approach the dominant repressive practices in subarea 51, in this paper, we will distinguish punitive spaces, the levels of violence recorded, and the forms of articulation between legal and illegal, and secret and visible dimensions of local-scale-repression. The analysis serves to reconstruct a complex repressive map whose nodal points were configured by the Clandestine Detention and Extermination Centers operating as transitory locations for confinement and torture and sites for 'blanqueamiento" and military bodies in general. These spaces were connected to each other, and they formed part of a plot that involved the repressive forces that had an impact in the city's streets and in specific institutions such as those that depended on the Buenos Aires Prison Service. The heterogeneous corpus of this study (made up by burocratic records of State agencies, memoirs of the victims and newspaper articles) will be addressed based on the integration of qualitative and quantitative methods.

Keywords : dictatorship; violence; prisoners; clandestine detention and extermination centers; Argentina.

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