La socialización política estudiantil en la Argentina de los sesenta: La Universidad de Buenos Aires

Abstract

A diferencia de los trabajos recientes acerca del movimiento estudiantil, que se han dedicado a enfatizar la incidencia de tal o cual conflicto en que la militancia universitaria participó o a describir las trayectorias de ciertos grupos, la peculiaridad de este texto reside en atender a la socialización política en un sentido más general. Más concretamente, este artículo se enfoca en lo acaecido en la Universidad de Buenos Aires, la casa de altos estudios más grande del país. En particular, el interés recae en las continuidades y cambios que este proceso de radicalización política registró en los centros de estudiantes porteños.

Recently, in Argentina, the decades of 1960s and 1970s were established as a field of investigation regarding the student movement. This period has resulted especially attractive, given that throughout those years there was a virulent university radicalization which, linked to other leftist protest movements, produced large-scale political events. Unlike other recent works, which have been devoted to focusing on –or highlighting– one specific conflict in which the student militancy participated, or to describing the history of certain groups, the peculiarity of this text lies in its attention to the general political socialization that took place at that time. More specifically, this article is dedicated to the developments in the University of Buenos Aires, the largest educational institution throughout the country. In particular, the paper concentrates on the continuities and changes that the political radicalization process registered in the student centers of this great port during the aforementioned decades.