Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin <p>The <em>Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana “Dr. Emilio Ravignani”</em> is a biannual journal of history that reflects the best results of historiographical research work in Latin America, as well as Latin Americanist works from other regions of the world. Its purpose is to constitute a means of communication between the authors and the specialized academic public to which it is addressed; but it also aspires to reach a wider audience, hoping to enrich the contributions and debates of Latin American historiography.</p> <p>The <em>Boletín </em>publishes two issues per year (January-June and July-December). The publication in paper format has been carried out since 1922, and in digital form since 2011.</p> Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires es-ES Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani 0524-9767 <p>The copyright is transferred to the <em>Boletín, </em>but the authors may retrieve them and reproduce their work in other media or formats by means of a written request to the Editorial Committee. In such cases, the <em>Boletín</em> will be cited as the first publication of the work.</p> <p>The works are licensed under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"><strong>Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License,</strong></a> which allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of their authorship and initial publication in this journal.</p> <p>Also, by written request to the Editorial Committee of the <em>Boletín, </em>the authors may separately establish additional agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in this journal (for example, placing it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication here. No commercial uses are allowed.</p> José Carlos Chiaramonte (1931-2024) http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/14855 <p>Homenaje - José Carlos Chiaramoente (1931-2024)</p> Noemí Goldman Copyright (c) 2024 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2024-07-01 2024-07-01 61 1 3 Ana María Presta (1953-2024) http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/14856 <p>Homenaje - Ana María Presta (1953-2024)</p> Sergio Angeli, María Carolina Jurado, Ariel Morrone, Lía Guillermina Oliveto y Laura Quiroga Copyright (c) 2024 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2024-07-01 2024-07-01 61 4 8 The transition to the new legal order. Workers, labor conflict and state mediation in the center of Buenos Aires province (1937-1949) http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/13042 <p>The article offers an exploration of the role played by the <em>Departamento de Trabajo</em> of Buenos Aires province and the <em>Secretaría de Trabajo y Previsión</em> in the resolution of a series of conflicts involving employers and workers in Olavarría between 1937 and 1949. Through the analysis of administrative files and news published in the local press, the paper considers the capacities of the officials of these departments to intervene in labor issues and reconstructs the workers experience of the State in a period of deep social and political transformations. Through a case study and sources underexploited by historiography, this research aims to shed new light on the changes and continuities that Peronism produced in the life of Argentine workers.</p> Pablo Canavessi Copyright (c) 2024 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2024-07-01 2024-07-01 61 9 35 10.34096/bol.rav.n61.13042 Votes without fights. The elections in the student centers of the national universities (1973-1975) http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/12786 <p>This article analyzes the elections of the student centers of the Argentine national universities after the constitutional return of 1973 until its closure with the dictatorship perpetrated in 1976. Based on detailed election information, the research aims to identify for a triennium participants, winners and losers, account for electoral contexts and so discover general trends. The text argues with those who have publicized a peronization as the predominant characteristic of the period.</p> Juan Sebastián Califa Copyright (c) 2024 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2024-07-01 2024-07-01 61 36 58 10.34096/bol.rav.n61.12786 Impunity, Justice and Crimes against Humanity: Rupture and Articulation of the Political Consensus after the Supreme Court “2x1” Sentence (Argentina, 2017) http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/13025 <p>In May 2017, the Supreme Court decided the applicability of colloquially called “2x1” law in perpetrator Luis Muiña’s case. This law had been issued between 1994 and 2001, and established a reduction of sentence for those convicted who had been in preventive detention for more than two years. This new jurisprudence for crimes against humanity established a precedent for other convicts to apply for the benefit. The following article analyzes the political and social process unleashed after the sentence and its culmination in the enactment of Law 27.362, which declared the “2x1” law for crimes against humanity inapplicable. The central hypothesis is that the political deliberation and social mobilization was a scenario for the re-articulation of a political consensus that built on the democratic transition’s legacies from State terrorism and for the notion of impunity as a category able to articulate, in a contingent way, politically heterogeneous positions, traditions and rationalities.</p> Salvi Valentina Cinthia Balé Copyright (c) 2024 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2024-07-01 2024-07-01 61 59 83 10.34096/bol.rav.n61.13025 Presentación http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/14554 <p>Presentación</p> La Dirección del Instituto Ravignani Copyright (c) 2024 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2024-07-01 2024-07-01 61 84 84 Social conflict and ethno-racial identifications in the colonial prelude to caudillismo and the Montonera rebellions http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/14555 <p>This text develops some of the contributions of the book <em>El país indiviso. Poblamiento, conflictos por la tierra y mestizajes en Los Llanos de La Rioja durante la colonia</em>, by Roxana Boixadós and Judith Farberman, in order to understand the colonial history of the region and, above all, its projection for the analysis of rural political mobilization in the XIX century. It is not intended to be a review, but rather a commentary that rescues the analysis of the emergence and evolution of undivided property and the importance of the conflicts that this economic and social formation implied for the belligerence of Los Llanos in the post-independence period. It also addresses the book’s inquiry into the uses of ethnic or racial categories between the mid-18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, discussing some of the conclusions drawn from them. In particular, the need to deepen the decoupling of the categories as collective representations that establish differences of miscegenation as a specific biological or cultural process, and relativize the idea of ethnic-racial homogenization towards the beginning of the 19th century as one of the bases of popular and political mobilization, with a view to a regional explanation of the <em>montoneras</em> beyond Los Llanos.</p> Diego Escolar Copyright (c) 2024 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2024-07-01 2024-07-01 61 85 91 10.34096/bol.rav.n61.14555 Don Cándido Sotomayor and his consistency in the perception of quality http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/14575 <p>For twenty-six years, the priest of Los Llanos, Don Cándido Sotomayor, carried out a task of organizing and classifying the priesthood that is surprising given the dynamics of constant change that characterized that community towards the end of the colonial period. In this sense, it seems that his work did not consist of a mere reclassification of the population, but rather a personal and consistent categorization based on the implicit criteria of <em>quality</em> perception. The categories used by Sotomayor reveal both the values ​​rooted in his position in the social hierarchy and the changes in the current racial imaginaries and their resignification towards the end of the colonial era. It is important to highlight, in line with what the authors expressed, the opportunities that the analysis of Sotomayor's work provides to examine the approaches through which the census takers observed reality. Likewise, it allows contrasting perceptions, consistency and reinforcements of certain implicit attributes of quality over time. This detailed look at the religious’ work and classification criteria offers us a unique window to understand how quality was constructed and perceived at that time, as well as to analyze the changes and continuities in social and racial evaluations throughout the colonial period.</p> Florencia Guzmán Copyright (c) 2024 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2024-07-01 2024-07-01 61 92 102 10.34096/bol.rav.n61.14575 Commentary on El país indiviso by Roxana Boixadós and Judith Farberman http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/14556 <p>The following contribution offers an analysis of the book <em>El país indiviso. Poblamiento, conflictos por la tierra y mestizajes en Los Llanos de La Rioja durante la Colonia</em>, published in 2021, by Roxana Boixadós and Judith Farberman, which presents a study on the configuration of the Los Llanos de La Rioja region during the Colony and an analysis of the geographical and social dynamics around land conflicts.</p> Romina Zamora Copyright (c) 2024 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2024-07-01 2024-07-01 61 103 113 10.34096/bol.rav.n61.14556 Response to comments on El país indiviso http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/14557 <p>We present here some considerations that arose from the comments of Romina Zamora, Florencia Guzmán, and Diego Escolar on <em>El país indiviso. </em><em>Poblamiento, conflictos por la tierra y mestizajes en Los Llanos de La Rioja durante la coloni</em>a, of our authorship. We focus on three fundamental issues, which are also highlighted by the commentators: socioethnic classifications, the configuration of 'common fields' of undivided property, and the projections of this colonial research into the 19th century.</p> Roxana Boixadós Judith Farberman Copyright (c) 2024 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2024-07-01 2024-07-01 61 114 126 10.34096/bol.rav.n61.14557 Presentación http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/14560 <p>Presentación</p> La Dirección del Instituto Ravignani Copyright (c) 2024 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2024-07-01 2024-07-01 61 127 128 Chronicle of a historiographic dissatisfaction. Commentary to Sergio Serulnikov. The power of disagreement. Political culture and crisis of the Spanish government. Chuquisaca, 1777-1809 http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/14561 <p>Historiographic consideration on the political culture of the late-colonial period and its impact regarding the publication of Sergio Serulnikov's recent book, <em>El poder del disenso</em>, which proposes a long-term revisionist look at the crisis of the Spanish colonial order in the Andes.</p> Gustavo L. Paz Copyright (c) 2024 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2024-07-01 2024-07-01 61 129 134 10.34096/bol.rav.n61.14561 About the power of dissent: reflections on the historiographic contributions of Sergio Serulnikov’s new book http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/14563 <p>This essay offers a description of the content and a critical reflection of Serulnikov’s new work, organized five sections. First, the structure of this exhaustive book of political history is described and the central question that animates it is presented about “how the new is born”, or in other words, how historical change occurs. Secondly, the articulation of this book with the precedent on “ethnic political cultures” is made explicit. In the third instance, some lines of debate on the scope and limitations of the concepts of “culture” and “political culture” are recovered. The fourth part presents the historiographical position of the author regarding the old and new discussions about the causes and periodization of independence. Finally, it focuses on the scales and the biographical strategy with which the book works, to revisit the methodological question of the exceptional-normal.</p> Pablo Ortemberg Copyright (c) 2024 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2024-07-01 2024-07-01 61 135 145 10.34096/bol.rav.n61.14563 Comments on Sergio Serulnikov’s book, El poder del disenso. Cultura política urbana y crisis del gobierno español. Chuquisaca, 1777-1809 http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/14564 <p>From Sergio Serulnikov's book, <em>El poder del disenso. Cultura política urbana y crisis del gobierno español. </em><em>Chuquisaca, 1777-1809</em> (Buenos Aires, Prometeo, 2022), the text reflects on its main contributions to the historical field for the late colonial period and the beginning of the 19th century. The comments focus on three fundamental aspects. The first one, of theoretical character, concerns the always renewed discussion about the nature and driving force of historical change; the second is methodological and revolves around the link drawn between the record of action and that of speeches; the third, of a historiographical order, refers to the role of the colonial condition and the crisis of 1808 in the Spanish American revolutionary processes.</p> Marcela Ternavasio Copyright (c) 2024 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2024-07-01 2024-07-01 61 146 154 10.34096/bol.rav.n61.14564 'The harsh mechanism of empire' and its dissidents. On the decline of the colonial order http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/14565 <p>This essay addresses a set of methodological problems around the study of the crisis of the colonial order and political history in response to the comments of Pablo Ortemberg, Gustavo Paz and Marcela Ternavasio on the book of my authorship, <em>El poder del disenso. </em><em>Cultura política urbana y crisis del gobierno español. Chuquisaca, 1777-1809</em>.</p> Sergio Serulnikov Copyright (c) 2024 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2024-07-01 2024-07-01 61 155 177 10.34096/bol.rav.n61.14565 Reviews http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/article/view/14566 <p>Agustina Rayes, Mariano J. Aramburo, Julio Djenderedjian, Aníbal Jáuregui, María Elena Barral, María José Valdez, Cecilia Simón.&nbsp;</p> Agustina Rayes Mariano J. Aramburo Julio Djenderedjian Aníbal Jáuregui María Elena Barral María José Valdez Cecilia Simón Copyright (c) 2024 Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2024-07-01 2024-07-01 61 178 195 10.34096/bol.rav.n61.14566