Sebastián Carassai
Biographic Data
| ID | 641840 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sebastián Carassai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sebastián |
| FAMILY NAME | Carassai |
| SIGNATURE | CARASSAI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Buenos Aires |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0078-264X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Populismo y Latinoamérica
A comienzos de la década del setenta, el sociólogo brasileño Octavio Ianni caracterizó al populismo como “uno de los hechos al mismo tiempo políticos, económicos y sociales más importantes de la historia de América Latina”. Dicha caracterización aludía a los movimientos políticos que en el subcontinente despertaron luego de la crisis de 1930, como el varguismo en Brasil y el peronismo en la Argentina, y continuaron apareciendo en otros países de …
Una sintomatología de lo social
Artículo perteneciente a la Lectura: “Hugo Vezzetti: itinerarios críticos”
Dictatorship, War, and the Transition to Democracy
In April 1982, war broke out between Argentina and Great Britain over the Malvinas/Falklands Islands. While the military regime channeled nationalist fervor through spectacles like the televised program 24 Hours for the Malvinas , this narrative often overshadowed other grassroots mobilizations. This article examines one such case: a music festival organized by the town band in a small rural community in Santa Fe province. While the event shared …
Class, Relationships, and the Art of Historical Imagination
Daniel James, a preeminent historian of the Argentine working class and Peronism, has fundamentally transformed how we understand Latin American labor history. This oral history interview, conducted by four of his former doctoral students, explores the personal, intellectual, and methodological foundations of his pioneering work. James discusses his working-class upbringing in post-war England as the son of Communist Party militants, his formativ…
Horacio González (1944-2021)
Horacio González (1944-2021)
The Dagger of Dispossession Will Be Ripped Out
In April 1982, Great Britain and Argentina went to war over the Falkland Islands/Malvinas. On 14 June, the defeated Argentine military began the evacuation of the Islands. Most Argentines came to view this short war as an absurd adventure entered into by a military dictatorship in decline trying to cling on to power. Yet by analysing Argentine songs about the Malvinas from 1941 to 1982, this article shows that the national imaginary had long incl…
Argentina's Missing Bones
Argentina's Missing Bones is about the history of the dirty war in Córdoba province and the author's search to find the specific features that would make it a “unique” case within Argentina (p. 18). Chapter 1 reviews the social forces that the province's military authorities perceived as threatening. Chapter 2 studies the repressive apparatus created by Luciano Benjamín Menéndez, who from 1975 was in charge of the Córdoba-based Third Army Corps; …
Violencia política, dictadura militar y memoria. La Argentina de los años setenta y ochenta a partir del Archivo Marshall T. Meyer
O rabino norte-americano Marshall Meyer foi uma figura destacada da comunidade judaica-argentina e um defensor pioneiro dos direitos humanos durante a última ditadura militar (1976-1983). Nos últimos anos, seu arquivo pessoal foi incorporado ao Arquivo de Direitos Humanos da David M. Rubenstein Library, a Biblioteca de Manuscritos e Livros Raros da Universidade de Duke. A partir de seus sermões, discursos, correspondências pessoais e profissionai…
Federico Finchelstein. The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War
In a classic book on Argentine nationalism published in 2002 (Nacionalismo, fascismo y tradicionalismo en la Argentina moderna: Una historia), the historian Fernando Devoto claims that it is hard to believe that there was a historical route between the nationalists of the first third of the twentieth century and those of the last military dictatorship (1976–1983). In The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War: Fascism, Populism, and Dictatorship in…
Development, Dictatorship, and Human Rights during the Cold War in Latin America
The Cold War in Latin America was far from cold. In almost all countries of the subcontinent, especially during the sixties, international American policy indirectly favored, if not directly provoked, the rise of authoritarian governments. In some cases, it also encouraged repressive policies. By the last third of the seventies, Washington tried to moderate the ferocity of the regimes that it had helped to hatch. From Development to Dictatorship …
The Dark Side of Social Desire
The 1970s was the most violent decade of the entire twentieth century for Argentina. Its first half was characterised by the rise of political radicalisation, and its second by the reign of state repression. Studies devoted to investigating the issue of violence in the 1970s have concentrated fundamentally on the protagonists. By contrast, this article offers an analysis of the symbolic terrain, shifting focus from the conscious to the unconsciou…
Consent of the Damned
How unpopular was the last military dictatorship in Argentina? In Consent of the Damned: Ordinary Argentinians in the Dirty War, David Sheinin poses this question and takes an infrequently traveled path to answer it. He explores the emergence, development, and reconfiguration of a discourse about human rights during the period of the last military dictatorship (1976–1983) and its immediate aftermath, distinguishing between three different phases.…
The Formation of a Post-Peronist Generation
A significant segment of the Argentine intelligentsia experienced the Revolution of September 1955, which overthrew General Juan Domingo Perón, as a moment of liberation. With some exceptions, such as Arturo Jauretche and Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz among others, the cultural politics of Peronism had not managed to gain many followers in the course of its ten-year experiment. During the two consecutive Perón governments (1946-1955) the often implicit, …
Antes de que anochezca. Derechos humanos y clases medias en Argentina antes y en los inicios del golpe de Estado de 1976
En este trabajo se analiza el tema de los derechos humanos en Argentina antes y durante el comienzo del golpe de Estado de 1976 (1970-1977). Se argumenta que la inexistencia de una conciencia social sobre tales derechos en la primera mitad de la década y el temprano y extendido consenso en torno a lo que más tarde se llamará «teoría de los dos demonios» son dos elementos fundamentales a la hora de explicar la actitud de las clases medias no radic…
Antes de que anochezca
En este trabajo analizo la cuestión de los derechos humanos en Argentina antes y durante el comienzo del Golpe de Estado de 1976 (1970-1977). Argumento que la inexistencia de una conciencia social sobre los derechos humanos en la primera mitad de la década y el temprano y extentido consenso en torno a lo que más tarde se llamará "teoría de los dos demonios" son dos elementos fundamentales a la hora de explicar la actitud de los sectores medios no…
San La Muerte
I analyze in this article the relationship between San La Muerte (a pagan saint worshipped still today) and the official Catholic institution, the specific characteristics taken up by this devotion, and the way the belief in this saint is linked with the social relations that worshippers establish among them. In the first place, I intend to show that although San La Muerte represents an aborigine tradition blended within Christianity, the cult ha…
The noisy majority
The noisy majority
The Formation of a Post-Peronist Generation
A significant segment of the Argentine intelligentsia experienced the Revolution of September 1955, which overthrew General Juan Domingo Perón, as a moment of liberation. With some exceptions, such as Arturo Jauretche and Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz among others, the cultural politics of Peronism had not managed to gain many followers in the course of its ten-year experiment. During the two consecutive Perón governments (1946-1955) the often implicit, …
The Dark Side of Social Desire
The 1970s was the most violent decade of the entire twentieth century for Argentina. Its first half was characterised by the rise of political radicalisation, and its second by the reign of state repression. Studies devoted to investigating the issue of violence in the 1970s have concentrated fundamentally on the protagonists. By contrast, this article offers an analysis of the symbolic terrain, shifting focus from the conscious to the unconsciou…
Antes de que anochezca. Derechos humanos y clases medias en Argentina antes y en los inicios del golpe de Estado de 1976
En este trabajo se analiza el tema de los derechos humanos en Argentina antes y durante el comienzo del golpe de Estado de 1976 (1970-1977). Se argumenta que la inexistencia de una conciencia social sobre tales derechos en la primera mitad de la década y el temprano y extendido consenso en torno a lo que más tarde se llamará «teoría de los dos demonios» son dos elementos fundamentales a la hora de explicar la actitud de las clases medias no radic…
Antes de que anochezca
En este trabajo analizo la cuestión de los derechos humanos en Argentina antes y durante el comienzo del Golpe de Estado de 1976 (1970-1977). Argumento que la inexistencia de una conciencia social sobre los derechos humanos en la primera mitad de la década y el temprano y extentido consenso en torno a lo que más tarde se llamará "teoría de los dos demonios" son dos elementos fundamentales a la hora de explicar la actitud de los sectores medios no…
San La Muerte
I analyze in this article the relationship between San La Muerte (a pagan saint worshipped still today) and the official Catholic institution, the specific characteristics taken up by this devotion, and the way the belief in this saint is linked with the social relations that worshippers establish among them. In the first place, I intend to show that although San La Muerte represents an aborigine tradition blended within Christianity, the cult ha…
The noisy majority
The Formation of a Post-Peronist Generation
A significant segment of the Argentine intelligentsia experienced the Revolution of September 1955, which overthrew General Juan Domingo Perón, as a moment of liberation. With some exceptions, such as Arturo Jauretche and Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz among others, the cultural politics of Peronism had not managed to gain many followers in the course of its ten-year experiment. During the two consecutive Perón governments (1946-1955) the often implicit, …
Antes de que anochezca. Derechos humanos y clases medias en Argentina antes y en los inicios del golpe de Estado de 1976
En este trabajo se analiza el tema de los derechos humanos en Argentina antes y durante el comienzo del golpe de Estado de 1976 (1970-1977). Se argumenta que la inexistencia de una conciencia social sobre tales derechos en la primera mitad de la década y el temprano y extendido consenso en torno a lo que más tarde se llamará «teoría de los dos demonios» son dos elementos fundamentales a la hora de explicar la actitud de las clases medias no radic…
Antes de que anochezca
En este trabajo analizo la cuestión de los derechos humanos en Argentina antes y durante el comienzo del Golpe de Estado de 1976 (1970-1977). Argumento que la inexistencia de una conciencia social sobre los derechos humanos en la primera mitad de la década y el temprano y extentido consenso en torno a lo que más tarde se llamará "teoría de los dos demonios" son dos elementos fundamentales a la hora de explicar la actitud de los sectores medios no…
Consent of the Damned
How unpopular was the last military dictatorship in Argentina? In Consent of the Damned: Ordinary Argentinians in the Dirty War, David Sheinin poses this question and takes an infrequently traveled path to answer it. He explores the emergence, development, and reconfiguration of a discourse about human rights during the period of the last military dictatorship (1976–1983) and its immediate aftermath, distinguishing between three different phases.…
The Dark Side of Social Desire
The 1970s was the most violent decade of the entire twentieth century for Argentina. Its first half was characterised by the rise of political radicalisation, and its second by the reign of state repression. Studies devoted to investigating the issue of violence in the 1970s have concentrated fundamentally on the protagonists. By contrast, this article offers an analysis of the symbolic terrain, shifting focus from the conscious to the unconsciou…
Development, Dictatorship, and Human Rights during the Cold War in Latin America
The Cold War in Latin America was far from cold. In almost all countries of the subcontinent, especially during the sixties, international American policy indirectly favored, if not directly provoked, the rise of authoritarian governments. In some cases, it also encouraged repressive policies. By the last third of the seventies, Washington tried to moderate the ferocity of the regimes that it had helped to hatch. From Development to Dictatorship …
Violencia política, dictadura militar y memoria. La Argentina de los años setenta y ochenta a partir del Archivo Marshall T. Meyer
O rabino norte-americano Marshall Meyer foi uma figura destacada da comunidade judaica-argentina e um defensor pioneiro dos direitos humanos durante a última ditadura militar (1976-1983). Nos últimos anos, seu arquivo pessoal foi incorporado ao Arquivo de Direitos Humanos da David M. Rubenstein Library, a Biblioteca de Manuscritos e Livros Raros da Universidade de Duke. A partir de seus sermões, discursos, correspondências pessoais e profissionai…
Federico Finchelstein. The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War
In a classic book on Argentine nationalism published in 2002 (Nacionalismo, fascismo y tradicionalismo en la Argentina moderna: Una historia), the historian Fernando Devoto claims that it is hard to believe that there was a historical route between the nationalists of the first third of the twentieth century and those of the last military dictatorship (1976–1983). In The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War: Fascism, Populism, and Dictatorship in…
Argentina's Missing Bones
Argentina's Missing Bones is about the history of the dirty war in Córdoba province and the author's search to find the specific features that would make it a “unique” case within Argentina (p. 18). Chapter 1 reviews the social forces that the province's military authorities perceived as threatening. Chapter 2 studies the repressive apparatus created by Luciano Benjamín Menéndez, who from 1975 was in charge of the Córdoba-based Third Army Corps; …
The Dagger of Dispossession Will Be Ripped Out
In April 1982, Great Britain and Argentina went to war over the Falkland Islands/Malvinas. On 14 June, the defeated Argentine military began the evacuation of the Islands. Most Argentines came to view this short war as an absurd adventure entered into by a military dictatorship in decline trying to cling on to power. Yet by analysing Argentine songs about the Malvinas from 1941 to 1982, this article shows that the national imaginary had long incl…
Horacio González (1944-2021)
Horacio González (1944-2021)
Populismo y Latinoamérica
A comienzos de la década del setenta, el sociólogo brasileño Octavio Ianni caracterizó al populismo como “uno de los hechos al mismo tiempo políticos, económicos y sociales más importantes de la historia de América Latina”. Dicha caracterización aludía a los movimientos políticos que en el subcontinente despertaron luego de la crisis de 1930, como el varguismo en Brasil y el peronismo en la Argentina, y continuaron apareciendo en otros países de …
Una sintomatología de lo social
Artículo perteneciente a la Lectura: “Hugo Vezzetti: itinerarios críticos”
Dictatorship, War, and the Transition to Democracy
In April 1982, war broke out between Argentina and Great Britain over the Malvinas/Falklands Islands. While the military regime channeled nationalist fervor through spectacles like the televised program 24 Hours for the Malvinas , this narrative often overshadowed other grassroots mobilizations. This article examines one such case: a music festival organized by the town band in a small rural community in Santa Fe province. While the event shared …
Class, Relationships, and the Art of Historical Imagination
Daniel James, a preeminent historian of the Argentine working class and Peronism, has fundamentally transformed how we understand Latin American labor history. This oral history interview, conducted by four of his former doctoral students, explores the personal, intellectual, and methodological foundations of his pioneering work. James discusses his working-class upbringing in post-war England as the son of Communist Party militants, his formativ…
Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · History (8 works) · Memory, violence, and history (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Dictatorship (5 works)