Latin America on Sexto Continente: intellectuals, Peronism and latin american issues (1949-1950)

• Grant number: 23/16004-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: October 01, 2024
• End date: February 28, 2027
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of America
• Principal Investigator: José Alves de Freitas Neto
• Grantee: Raquel Fernandes Lanzoni
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research project analyzes the argentine magazine Sexto Continente, published between July 1949 and December 1950. The publication, directed by Armando Cascella (1900-1971), Alicia Eguren (1925-1977) and Valentín Thiebaut, presented on its pages works that dialogued with the nationalist agenda and, concomitantly, appealed to elements of justicialism. We advocate the hypothesis that Sexto Continente was inserted in a field of political, cultural and social discussions and disputes about projects for Argentina and also for the Latin American continent. Based on the perspective of intellectual history, we will investigate how Sexto Continente's editorial project constructed a conception of Latin America based on and through justicialism. This term, which commonly characterizes Juan Perón's political doctrine, is understood, in this research, in a broader way: in addition to the doctrinal definitions adopted within the Peronist Party and based on the president's own speeches, justicialism is also constituted by intellectuals and politicians who did not make up Juan Perón's "hard core" circle and, in this way, discussed a less restricted and more diverse conception of peronism, a movement whose many political and ideological bases and definitions had already been discussed previously by other groups , especially in relation to Latin America. The magazine's project is inserted, after all, in a historically specific cultural, social and political context, in which the magazine's articulation of the peronist agenda was rooted in argentine nationalism. When thinking about the magazine Sexto Continente and its agenda, intellectuals brought peronism, read as an original proposal from Argentina, closer to a possible interconnection with the agenda on Latin American ills. Justicialism then emerges as an alternative path for other Latin American countries to overcome their problems and oppose imperialism. We will therefore explain how Sexto Continente presented the dissident notes of the ideological constellation that, to this day, continues to characterize the peronist movement.