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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Centro de Estudios Avanzados
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/restudios/article/view/42182 |
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| Sumario: | 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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