Jacques Vergès, Rupture Strategy and the Argentinean New Left

Circulations and Adaptations of a Judiciary Theory

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ID5797339
AuthorsDavid Copello (0000-0002-0204-5793, Centre de Recherches Politiques de Sciences Po, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume33
Issue3
Pages348-364
Publication date2019-03-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1360-0826 • E-ISSN: 1469-798X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13600826.2019.1598943
OpenAlexW2929898963
LanguageEN
Citations received4

This article deals with the transatlantic circulations of the theory of "rupture strategy", popularised by French lawyer Jacques Vergès in the early 1960s. In the early 1970s, the concept was imported and adapted to the Argentinean context by radical left-wing lawyers. Their uses of rupture strategy were modelled by their perception of Argentina as being a "semi-colonised" country, whose situation was comparable to that of Algeria. In the 1980s however, in a context of democratisation, the same lawyers reassessed their uses of "Vergesian" vocabulary and progressively renounced rupture strategy, while still maintaining a critique of liberal penal law. To account for this evolution, this article adopts a socio-historical perspective. It shows that the reception of Vergès' theory must be understood as a dynamic process, in which the permanent interaction and the contradictory evolution of two different contexts (context of reception and context of origin), interfere with the continued importation of rupture strategy

Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Legal Systems and Institutions · North African History and Literature

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