“Perón Pedófilo”: political uses of the past on Twitter
The investigative commissions created by the coup d'état of 1955 crystallized a set of different ideas that sought to link Peronism and corruption as one of the ways of "desperonizar" society. Although the political failure of this enterprise has been discussed several times, the pers...
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Facultad de Humanidades y Artes, UNR
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://anuariodehistoria.unr.edu.ar/index.php/Anuario/article/view/371 |
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| Sumario: | The investigative commissions created by the coup d'état of 1955 crystallized a set of different ideas that sought to link Peronism and corruption as one of the ways of "desperonizar" society. Although the political failure of this enterprise has been discussed several times, the persistence of these representations in the political imagination of a part of Argentine society invites us to study their current circulation. In this article we seek to trace those figurations from their publication on Twitter between 2010 and 2022, identify the contexts in which they went viral and the past-present associations they activated in right-wing groups. We focus on a series of tweets that denounce Perón as a pedophile and use images illustrating his alleged love affair with Nelly Haydee Rivas, denounced as statutory rape by the "liberator revolution". From a multiscale approach, we will also reflect on the tools needed to build a corpus that allows working with the historical archive of Twitter. |
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