From the inside of Tucumán´s strategic towns: counterinsurgency, population displacement and forced urbanization
In the deployment of counter-insurrection policies, not only is the annihilation of the “enemy” what is sought, but also “to win the hearts and minds” of the civilian population. It was within this logic that, at the beginning of the Argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983), the “Rural Relocation...
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Instituto de Arqueología y Museo, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e IML, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | http://publicaciones.csnat.unt.edu.ar/index.php/mundodeantes/article/view/6 http://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/suquia/10005 |
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| Sumario: | In the deployment of counter-insurrection policies, not only is the annihilation of the “enemy” what is sought, but also “to win the hearts and minds” of the civilian population. It was within this logic that, at the beginning of the Argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983), the “Rural Relocation Plan” emerged in the province of Tucumán, which forcibly displaced 500 peasants who were scattered in the Tucuman bush and who were regrouped afterwards within four towns createdin the Operations Zone: Teniente Berdina, Soldado Maldonado, Capitan Cáceres and Sargento Moya. Based on a genealogy of the counter-insurgent military technique of creating strategic towns, this article explores the role that military civic action programs played during the military dictatorship, with special emphasis on analyzing the impact of these programson the displaced population. The analysis of this article is mainly based on ethnographic work carried out in 2014 within the four strategic towns. In this field work, in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with the population who was displaced between 1976 and 1978. The analysis was completed from files obtained in libraries, newspaper archives, militaryarchives, and government agencies. |
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