Ejército y Nación. Un estudio sobre las estrategias de inscripción de lo/as oficiales del Ejército Argentino en la comunidad nacional

Abstract

Figures such as "moral reserve of the nation" or "saviours of the fatherland" account for not only the privileged place that the army maintained in its bond with the nation but also for the kind of legitimate type of agency that it should exercise. After the state terrorism and the Malvinas War defeat, in a context of declining prestige of the military elite, the officials are forced to manage relationships that establish mutual recognition to the society and the nation of which they are part. Drawing on the analysis and interpretation of the representations, beliefs and values ”‹”‹that the officers actualise within the daily exercise of their profession, the purpose of this work is to account for the meanings, that come from the past but are also subject to change and needs of the present, which frame, nurture and sustain a kind of inscription of the historical agency of the army in the national community