On anarchism's historiography in the Argentine left: A journey through strikes, bombs, beautiful souls, dandys and anarcademics

Abstract

The present article questions the historiographic perspectives that were interested in the Argentine libertarian experience in order to determine the main discussion that were drawn among them. Its main objective is to understand these works in a broader historiographic scheme about the left. For this purpose this article determines three moments. One is strongly linked to the readings of anarchism within the so-called new left. A second moment typical of the 1980s and 1990s that affirmed the definitive closure of the cycle of leftist alternatives, while the research that was being developed outside the country proposed a new set of questions. And a third academic moment interested in the past of the demands for individual rights, the self-organization and the historical politicization of the anarchist agenda, on feminism and sexual emancipation, the struggle for abortion, anti-militarism, free education, cooperativism, ecology and naturism.