In Derivas de la sangre, María Marta Quintana proposes to analyze the “subjectivation process of Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (APM) association” (25).1 Quintana focuses on three particular monographs produced by the association (Botin de guerra [Nosigilia 1985], Identidad, despojo y restitución [Herrera and Tenembaum 1989], and La historia de Abuelas: 30 años de búsqueda [Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo 2007]) to systematize how Abuelas of Plaza de Mayo built its own (changeable) identity, forged several and combined public ethos, and developed a “strategic blood's essentialism” to dispute the last Argentine postdictatorship's legacy. Drawing from Paul Ricoeur's narration theory, Michel Foucault's concept of “strategic antagonism,” Homi Bhabha's insights on authoritarian discourse, and Judith Butler's notion of “alternative agency,” Quintana develops a philosophical analysis of the separate conceptual and political struggles Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo had to endure to make justice to the past....
“At the Beginning, It Was All Intuition, Theory Came After”
Mauro Greco works as investigador asistente (lecturer) at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina. He is currently doing a teaching and research fellowship at the University of Salamanca's Department of Philosophy, Logic and Aesthetics and its Ibero-American Institute. He has also worked as postdoctoral fellow at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales’ Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage and the University of Edinburgh's Department of Politics and International Relations for European Research Council – funded project Navigating the Greyzone: Addressing Complex Complicities to Human Rights Violations. His first book is Responsibility and Resistances: Last Argentine Dictatorship's Neighbour's Memories (2016). He has published several papers in journals such as Mémoires en jeu; Law, Culture, and the Humanities; Contemporary Political Theory; Latin American Society and Politics; Çédille; Cultural Politics; and Soccer and Society, among others. He has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in more than ten Argentine and international universities. He is currently researching the international figure of Diego Armando Maradona and the feminism of rape prevention as two thought-provoking entries to the recent, traumatic, and violent Argentine past.
Mauro Greco; “At the Beginning, It Was All Intuition, Theory Came After”. Cultural Politics 1 November 2024; 20 (3): 512–515. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-11321369
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