Las secuelas sociales, culturales y económicas que el Proceso de Reorganización Nacional (1976-1983) dejó en la Argentina persisten con toda su fuerza a día de hoy. A finales de los años noventa los argentinos nacidos poco antes de la dictadura comenzaron a releer cinematográficamente ese capítulo negro de la historia nacional. Vinculados al pasado reciente de su país de manera diferente a la de sus padres, estos cineastas se lanzaron a producir una serie de películas que han conseguido aportar una nueva voz a la lucha colectiva por la memoria. Esta tesis se centra en estos films. Muchos de ellos focalizados en la voz de los hijos de los desaparecidos durante la dictadura, documentales como (h) Historias cotidianas (Andrés Habegger, 2000), Papa Iván (María Inés Roqué, 2000), El tiempo y la sangre (Alejandra Almirón, 2004), Encontrando a Víctor (Natalia Bruschtein, 2005), Los Rubios (Albertina Carri, 2003) o M (Nicolás Prividera, 2007) quieren dar forma a un pasado mediante la creatividad que les ofrece el lenguaje postmoderno. / The social, cultural and financial consequences of the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional (1976-1983) still survive today in Argentina with all their strength. In the late nineties the Argentineans who were born shortly before the dictatorship began to reread that black chapter of their national history with all the possibilities that the cinematographic language provided them. Linked to the recent past of their country in a different way than their parents, these filmmakers, most of them sons or daughters of disappeared people, produced some films that have managed to bring a new voice in the fight for collective memory. This investigation analyses these films. Documentaries as (h) historias cotidianas (Andrés Habegger, 2000), Papá Iván (María Inés Roqué, 2000), El tiempo y la sangre (Alejandra Almirón, 2004 ), Encontrando a Víctor (Natalia Bruschtein, 2005), Los Rubios (Albertina Carri, 2003) or M (Nicolás Prividera, 2007) pretend to shape the past through a creative and postmodern language.

Alejandra Pizarnik nació y murió en Buenos Aires, Argentina (1936¬1972). Trabajó en su poesía las tradiciones románticas, simbolistas y surrealistas. Su poesía se encargó de poner en escena lo desgarrador del silencio creativo. Su inadaptación a la sociedad hace que se refugie en el lenguaje, enloquezca en él y muera en él. El poema y la palabra serán la única realidad. El objeto de estudio del presente trabajo se centra en la producción literaria de Alejandra Pizarnik de la que se analizará, a partir de los textos poéticos, la evolución de su lenguaje y los símbolos que se reiteran para crear un universo a manera de microcosmía o "jardín cerrado". Para ello es necesario un corpus fiable, de ahí que el segundo volumen de esta investigación consista en el cotejo de las primeras ediciones de Alejandra Pizarnik publicadas en vida con las dos ediciones de la obra poética "completa" publicadas por Cristina Piña en Corregidor y Anna Becciú en Lumen. El segundo volumen de este trabajo no pretende ser una edición crítica ni tampoco definitiva, tan sólo es una aproximación a una posible fijación de los textos poéticos de A. Pizarnik debido a algunas incongruencias encontradas en los criterios seguidos en las ediciones de sus poesías completas anteriores. / Alejandra Pizarnik was born and died in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1936¬1972). In her poetry, she went through romantic, symbolist and surrealist traditions. Her poetry was in charge of performing heartbreaking creative silence. Her failure to adapt herself to society makes her taking refuge in the language, going crazy within and dying in it. The poem and the word will be the only reality. The subject to study in this research work is based on Alejandra Pizarnik's literary production. The evolution of the language in her literary production, as well as the repeated symbols to create a new universe in the form of a microcosm or "closed garden", will be analysed through her poetic texts. To do so, a reliable corpus is needed. This is the reason why Volume II of this research work involves the comparison of Alejandra Pizarnik's first editions, published while she was still alive, with the two editions of her "whole" poetic work published by Cristina Piña in Corregidor and Anna Becciú in Lumen. Volume II of this essay does not try to be a critical edition neither definitive. It is only an approach to a possible fixing of A. Pizarnik's poetic texts due to some incongruities found in the criteria adopted in the editions of her previous complete poems.

El objetivo la investigación ha sido caracterizar la problemática que protagonizaron los ahorristas en el conflicto estructural de la sociedad argentina de finales de 2001, detectando las contradicciones de este "nuevo" movimiento a la luz de sus propias interpretaciones, contextualizadas dentro de lo que llegó a ser el mito de la convertibilidad, y un nuevo modelo institucional. Modelo que legitimado en la globalización financiera, y que es el resultado de las sucesivas expansiones y profundizaciones del sistema capitalista hasta constituir el actual sistema mundo. Nos preguntábamos si realmente se dio en la Argentina de fines de 2001 una colectividad de individuos - un agente colectivo - unidos por una ideología y con la determinación de desafiar al orden neoliberal existente y fuera de los cauces institucionales de intermediación de intereses. Esta pregunta adquiere plenamente sentido dado que en la crisis económica, social, política e institucional de fines de 2001 se movilizan, protestan y manifiestan varios grupos de colectivos: piqueteros, ahorristas, vecinos asambleístas. Colectivos que hay contextualizados dentro de lo que llegó a ser el mito de la convertibilidad, y un nuevo modelo institucional que se ajustaba a los requerimientos del régimen de acumulación financiera, los intercambios comerciales y las inversiones productiva. En este sentido, consideramos que en las actuales condiciones de mercado - en ausencia de un centro totalizador de sentidos para cada una de las prácticas sociales -, son los flujos macroeconómicos los que toman a su cargo la producción de la subjetividad dominante y que es constituida por los hábitos de consumo y las operaciones de pensamiento que nos sirven para transitar la actual sociedad neoliberal. / The aim of this investigation is to describe the problems faced by costumers of saving banks "ahorristas" in the structural conflict declared in argentinean society towards the end of 2001. We would like to underline the contradictions of this "new" movement under the light of their own interpretations, in the context of what became the myth of convertibility, and a globalisation, and that is the result of several expansions and deepening of capitalist system in order to construct the present world system. We asked ourselves if a community of individuals, a communal agent joined by an ideology and the determination to challenge the existing neoliberal order and away from interest mediation institutionalised directions, really took place in Argentina by the end of 2001. This question makes sense, since in the institucional, political, social and economic crisis of the end of 2001, many communal -groups, picket groups, savers, neighbours delegates- moved, demonstrated and protested. These groups have to be put in the context of what came to be to peso dollar peg myth and ant the myth of a new institutional model wich was adjusted to the financial accumulation regime requirements, arousing from liberalization in the areas of finance, trade exchanges and productive investments. In this respect, we consider that in the current market conditions -with the absence of a center totalizer of senses for each social practice-, macroeconomic flows are in charge of the prevailing subjectivity production constituted by consumption habits and thinking operations. Which are useful to pass through the current neoliberal society.

Over the past two decades governments worldwide have begun to take action to correct gender disparity in representative bodies, resulting in drastic increases in women’s numeric representation. It is unclear, however, how these increases influence legislative behavior. This research contributes to our understanding of how increases in women’s numeric representation influences substantive representation of women. I collected an original dataset to examine this relationship across twenty-three subnational Argentine legislatures over eighteen years. This project represents one of the first empirical efforts to examine women’s substantive representation over a large number of legislatures over a long duration of time. A key piece of the puzzle is to understand if female exhibit distinct preferences from their male colleagues. The second chapter of the dissertation uses a new data set of ideal point estimates recovered from cosponsorship data to examine gender differences in legislative preferences. I find strong evidence to suggest women display different legislative preferences than their male colleagues. Chapter three investigates how increases in women’s numeric representation influence women’s legislative behavior. Previous research suggests that increasing women’s numeric representation should enhance the probability that women work together to pursue common legislative agendas. Yet, I demonstrate that as the percentage of women in the chamber increases, women are increasingly less likely to work together. I argue that this unexpected finding can be explained by considering how institutions shape women’s legislative incentives. In chapter four, I develop theoretical expectations about the conditions under which increases in the proportion of female legislators, in combination with institutional arrangements, will foster or stifle women’s opportunities and incentives to represent women’s interests. The chapter provides strong empirical support for the hypothesis that women behave differently conditional on institutional incentives. These findings imply that understanding institutions is key to understanding how and when female representatives will stand for women. Taken together, this dissertation makes an important contribution to our understanding of how changes in the proportion of female legislators and differences in institutional contexts shape women’s legislative behavior.

This study analyses how the real effective exchange rate affected the current account in Argentina between the years 1978 and 2006 divided into three sub-periods. Theory concerning the subject, the so called J-curve that the current account should immediately be reduced after a devaluation, thereafter recovering and in the end becoming larger than it was initially. This study has been unable find all the three stages of the J-curve, at best only the first two were found. In the first two periods – 1978 to 1990 and 1991 to 2000 – a real depreciation seemed to have an instant negative impact on the current account and then a positive trend could be seen. For the third sub-period of 2001 – 2006, there was even less evidence supporting a J-curve, although the small number of observations may be driving this results.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2001. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 227-239). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

Thesis (S.T.M.)--Concordia Theological Seminary, Ft. Wayne, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 129-132).

In this field study, female social workers perspectives have been collected, on interventions regarding sexual and reproductive health in the public sector in Argentina. The purpose was primary empirical and secondary to analyze empirical data using critical theory. The methodology was qualitative and the theoretical framework was created using an abductive approach. Thirteen female social workers were interviewed in the municipality of general Pueyrredón, in the province of Buenos Aires. Empirical data was categorized using the hermeneutic approach; described and analyzed using critical theory. Results presented challenges regarding lack of accessibility, continuity and accountability, from the nation, the province and the municipality. Moreover, results show challenges on how to target vulnerable groups, adolescents, people with low intellectual disability, people from neighboring countries, and from the north of Argentina. In addition, there were challenges on how to increase correct use and use of contraceptives. Suggestions were to make interventions more adaptable and creative. Stressed challenges were regarding male involvement in sexual and reproductive health decisions, gender violence, the patriarchal society, and the macho culture. Critical theory highlighted challenges created by Argentina’s societal structures, structures that contribute to oppression of service users, making them powerless and marginalized. By increasing the knowledge of critical social work theory in social work education, there would be more tools for social workers to use it in practice. When using critical social work theory all levels in a society shall be included. Specific policies and interventions are requested to battle female discrimination.

This thesis examines the role of an intellectual confronted with the power of a totalitarian state. It is based on a literary analysis of two literary works: Prisoner without a name, cell without a number by Jacobo Timerman and Archipelago Gulag by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. This work explores the dynamics manifested in the language used by an intellectual (a writer) at the level of discourse to challenge the status quo and question power relations established in a society with a repressive state system. The main focus of the analysis lies in establishing how social reality is reflected through discourse of an intellectual who is at the same time a writer, a former political prisoner, a witness, a victim and a judge. Furthermore, the purpose is to examine the notion of power and its relation in respect to such concepts as discourse, literature, knowledge, state and an individual and how the existing power relations affect and contribute to construction and / or deconstruction of individual and collective identity. The thesis's particular interest consists in the transformative effect of discourse on power relations (indoctrination, dominance, collaboration, etc.) which exist within a society as reflected through literary discourse. The theoretical foundation for the analysis will be partially based on the concepts proposed by Michel Foucault in his theory of power, Mikhail Bakhtin in his literary theory and Norman Fairclough in his CDA (critical discourse analysis) theory.

My dissertation Woman, Nation and Identity in the Narrative of Juana Manuela Gorriti and Clorinda Matto de Turner follows the construction of female identity in the emergent Latin American imaginary, and uses the regional zeitgeist as a framework for the analysis of the works of Juana Manuela Gorriti (Argentina, 1819 - 1892) and Clorinda Matto de Turner (Peru, 1852 - 1909), the latter known as the author of the first widely-read novel about indigenous issues in Latin America. I intend to shed light on the parallels between the turbulent intellectual lives of these two authors, the uncommon voice conferred upon them as members of a privileged upper class, and their active involvement in national politics. My work on these authors and their texts, some of them understudied, focus on the concept of gender in relation to the national project in the violent post-independence era to understand the development of identity in Latin America. I elaborate on these topics by analyzing the feminine subject, the domestic space, and the national imaginary and exploring their textual articulations to demonstrate their relevance in the emergent nations. It is impossible to read these novels without noticing the contradictions between gender performance and the actions of the female characters. The reading of this counter discourse reveals the process by which the agency of the feminine subject subverts the symbolic order and changes the national imaginary. I trace the transfer of power from the male in the public sphere to the female in the private sphere, as well as the role of women in the national project as portrayed in these works. This analysis intends to demonstrate how opening up the private spaces serves to better illustrate, or illustrate in a detailed way, national actuality in opposition to written authorized History. / text