UPAU: a unique case of right-wing students in democracy

This paper examines the right-wing university group UPAU (Unión Para la Apertura Universitaria), which became the second largest student force at the University of Buenos Aires in the last third of the 1980s. With an explicit position towards the right and a proposal that the student unions should r...

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spelling I10-R334-article-421822023-08-09T20:29:30Z UPAU: a unique case of right-wing students in democracy UPAU: un caso único de derecha estudiantil en democracia Cristal, Yann UPAU Movimiento estudiantil Universidad de Buenos Aires Derechas Democracia This paper examines the right-wing university group UPAU (Unión Para la Apertura Universitaria), which became the second largest student force at the University of Buenos Aires in the last third of the 1980s. With an explicit position towards the right and a proposal that the student unions should refrain from «doing politics», UPAU was the reverse of the «democratic spring» at the university and a key case of the disenchantment experienced by broad sectors in relation to the initial expectations with the democracy of 1983. Based on these problems, we propose to analyze the growth of UPAU in the UBA during the eighties, its program and the characteristics of its militancy, as well as its impact over the student organizations and the university in those years. These characteristics made UPAU a unique case, not only in the Argentine postdictatorship, but also in the history of student movement in our country. Este trabajo examina a la agrupación de derecha universitaria UPAU (Unión Para la Apertura Universitaria), que llegó a ser la segunda fuerza estudiantil de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en el último tercio de los años ochenta. Con un posicionamiento explícito hacia la derecha y un planteo de que los centros de estudiantes debían abstenerse de «hacer política», UPAU fue la contracara de la primavera democrática en la universidad y un caso testigo del desencanto que vivieron amplios sectores en relación con las expectativas iniciales con la democracia del ’83. En función de estas problemáticas, nos proponemos analizar el crecimiento de UPAU en la UBA durante los años ochenta, su programa y las características de su militancia, así como su impacto sobre las organizaciones estudiantiles y la universidad en esos años. Estos rasgos hicieron de UPAU un caso único, no sólo en la postdictadura argentina, sino en la propia historia del movimiento estudiantil en nuestro país. Centro de Estudios Avanzados 2023-08-07 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/restudios/article/view/42182 10.31050/re.vi50.42182 Estudios digital; Núm. 50 (2023): Argentina : 40 años de democracia; 145-163 1852-1568 0328-185X 10.31050/re.vi50 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/restudios/article/view/42182/42347 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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Democracia
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description This paper examines the right-wing university group UPAU (Unión Para la Apertura Universitaria), which became the second largest student force at the University of Buenos Aires in the last third of the 1980s. With an explicit position towards the right and a proposal that the student unions should refrain from «doing politics», UPAU was the reverse of the «democratic spring» at the university and a key case of the disenchantment experienced by broad sectors in relation to the initial expectations with the democracy of 1983. Based on these problems, we propose to analyze the growth of UPAU in the UBA during the eighties, its program and the characteristics of its militancy, as well as its impact over the student organizations and the university in those years. These characteristics made UPAU a unique case, not only in the Argentine postdictatorship, but also in the history of student movement in our country.
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