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Author Lazar, Sian, author

Title The social life of politics : ethics, kinship and union activism in Argentina / Sian Lazar
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2017

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Contents The state and the unions, in space and time -- Militancia : an ethics and politics of the self -- Family and intergenerational transmission of militancia -- Pedagogy and political community -- Containment as care -- Containment as political encompassment
Summary A central motor of Argentine historical and political development since the early twentieth century, unions have been the site of active citizenship in both political participation and the distribution of social, economic, political, and cultural rights. What brings activists to Argentine unions and what gives these unions their remarkable strength? The Social Life of Politics examines the intimate, personal, and family dimensions of two political activist groups: the Union of National Civil Servants (UPCN) and the Association of State Workers (ATE). These two unions represent distinct political orientations within Argentina's broad, vibrant labor movement: the UPCN identifies as predominantly Peronist, disciplined, and supportive of incumbent government, while the ATE prides itself on its democratic, horizontal approach and relative autonomy from the electoral process. Sian Lazar examines how activists in both unions create themselves as particular kinds of militants and forms of political community. The Social Life of Politics places the lived experience of political activism into historical relief and shows how ethics and family values deeply inform the process by which political actors are formed, understood, and joined together through collectivism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Labor unions -- Political activity -- Argentina
Labor movement -- Argentina
Political activists -- Argentina
Political culture -- Argentina
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Labor movement
Labor unions -- Political activity
Political activists
Political culture
Arbeiterbewegung
Politische Kultur
Argentina
Argentinien
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016051502
ISBN 9781503602427
1503602427