TY - JOUR
T1 - Looking for a refuge of ‘normalcy’ during the Argentine dictatorship
T2 - The case of Atlanta football club
AU - Rein, Raanan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/7/3
Y1 - 2018/7/3
N2 - This article examines the history of Club Atletico Atlanta of Buenos Aires during the years of the military dictatorship (1976–1983) within the framework of efforts to reconsider the impact of repression on everyday life. Club Atletico Atlanta is a microcosm of Argentine society, and it contained everything: from victims of repression, to the son of genocidal general Roberto Eduardo Viola. Conformism, indifference, adaptation, support for the military authorities, or opposition to them, as well as resistance strategies, were a mosaic of expressions showing that various attitudes coexisted while facing the impact of state terror on daily life. The advent of dictatorship did not mean the same rupture for everyone, and did not alter in the same way certain dimensions of everyday life and routines for different individuals and groups. The story of a neighbourhood club such as Atlanta and the perceptions and memories of its fans may help us move forward on this path, to ascertain the links between the ‘micro’ level of social life and the great narratives of politics and the State.
AB - This article examines the history of Club Atletico Atlanta of Buenos Aires during the years of the military dictatorship (1976–1983) within the framework of efforts to reconsider the impact of repression on everyday life. Club Atletico Atlanta is a microcosm of Argentine society, and it contained everything: from victims of repression, to the son of genocidal general Roberto Eduardo Viola. Conformism, indifference, adaptation, support for the military authorities, or opposition to them, as well as resistance strategies, were a mosaic of expressions showing that various attitudes coexisted while facing the impact of state terror on daily life. The advent of dictatorship did not mean the same rupture for everyone, and did not alter in the same way certain dimensions of everyday life and routines for different individuals and groups. The story of a neighbourhood club such as Atlanta and the perceptions and memories of its fans may help us move forward on this path, to ascertain the links between the ‘micro’ level of social life and the great narratives of politics and the State.
KW - 1978 World Cup Games
KW - Argentina
KW - Club Atletico Atlanta
KW - Daily life
KW - Military dictatorship
KW - Repression
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85063092275&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09523367.2019.1575814
DO - 10.1080/09523367.2019.1575814
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AN - SCOPUS:85063092275
SN - 0952-3367
VL - 35
SP - 949
EP - 964
JO - International Journal of the History of Sport
JF - International Journal of the History of Sport
IS - 10
ER -