Political culture -- Waiting for violence -- Social violence (1969-1974) -- Armed violence (1970-1977) -- State violence (1974-1982) -- A model kit -- Desire and violence (1969-1975)
Summary
In The Argentine Silent Majority, Sebastián Carassai focuses on middle-class culture and politics in Argentina from the end of the 1960s. By considering the memories and ideologies of middle-class Argentines who did not get involved in political struggles, he expands thinking about the era to the larger society that activists and direct victims of state terror were part of and claimed to represent. Carassai conducted interviews with 200 people, mostly middle-class non-activists, but also journalists, politicians, scholars, and artists who were politically active during the 1970s. T
