The peronist present: “space of experience” and “horizon of expectation” in the populist discourse of Juan Domingo Perón (1946-1955)

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2023.201129

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Temporality, Reinhart Koselleck, Stefan Helgesson, Populism, Peronism

Abstract

The present work analyzes the particular insertion of Argentine Peronism (1946-1955) in the modern temporality regime conceived by the historian Reinhart Koselleck from the identification of temporal dissonances typical of the period and that needed to be considered in official discourses to guarantee the maintenance of the populist hegemony of the regime. At first, a brief articulation of what we consider to be the essential contributions of Reinhart Koselleck's Metaphysics of Historical Time to temporal studies will be presented, as well as the critical review of this traditional thought deployed by Stefan Helgesson in the scope of postcolonial historiography. From that perspective, then, we will identify the “heterochronies”, that is, the temporal conversions of the populist discourse of Juan Domingo Perón in the official documents, which would allow specific displacements between the “space of experience” and the “horizon of expectation” of argentinian people. As a result, we identified a temporality in which the present is highlighted as the time of changes and social achievements, breaking with an oligarchic “before” of exploration and cosmopolitanism and establishing a future determined and planned by the Peronist “now”. Such analysis, then, allows us to conceive of Argentina under Perón as an example of alternative modernity.

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  • Ana Laura Galvão Batista, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho. Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais

    Mestranda em História e Cultura Social pela Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais da Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho. E-mail: ana.galvao@unesp.br

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2023-07-30

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Batista, A. L. G. (2023). The peronist present: “space of experience” and “horizon of expectation” in the populist discourse of Juan Domingo Perón (1946-1955). Brazilian Journal of Latin American Studies, 22(45), 247-270. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2023.201129