TY - JOUR
T1 - Unbecoming veteranship
T2 - Convicted military offi cers in post-authoritarian Argentina
AU - Van Roekel, Eva
AU - Salvi, Valentina
PY - 2019/6/1
Y1 - 2019/6/1
N2 - In post-authoritarian Argentina, veterans who participated in the brutal counterinsurgency of the last dictatorship (1976-1983) inhabit an extremely inconsistent citizenship, alternatively violating and respecting legal rights and entitlements. Th is article looks at how alternating transitional justice practices and the ever-changing moral discourses about warfare and accountability create highly unstable access to rights, resources, and entitlements for these veterans in Argentina. Th e recent shift toward re - tribution for crimes against humanity in Argentina has legally consolidated their moral downfall. From being untouchable and exemplary offi cers until the early 1980s, the now convicted military offi cers have been demoted twice by the state and the military institution. Based on long-term fi eldwork with the convicted offi cers and their kin, this article traces the contingent relation between the moral and legal practices that underlie this double downfall that constitutes a fl uctuating process of un/becoming veteranship for these veterans. Th eir veteranship, for that matter, depends on highly confl ictive and transformative sociopolitical processes that speak to broader moral dispositions surrounding legal rights, entitlements, and worthiness for veterans.
AB - In post-authoritarian Argentina, veterans who participated in the brutal counterinsurgency of the last dictatorship (1976-1983) inhabit an extremely inconsistent citizenship, alternatively violating and respecting legal rights and entitlements. Th is article looks at how alternating transitional justice practices and the ever-changing moral discourses about warfare and accountability create highly unstable access to rights, resources, and entitlements for these veterans in Argentina. Th e recent shift toward re - tribution for crimes against humanity in Argentina has legally consolidated their moral downfall. From being untouchable and exemplary offi cers until the early 1980s, the now convicted military offi cers have been demoted twice by the state and the military institution. Based on long-term fi eldwork with the convicted offi cers and their kin, this article traces the contingent relation between the moral and legal practices that underlie this double downfall that constitutes a fl uctuating process of un/becoming veteranship for these veterans. Th eir veteranship, for that matter, depends on highly confl ictive and transformative sociopolitical processes that speak to broader moral dispositions surrounding legal rights, entitlements, and worthiness for veterans.
KW - Argentina
KW - Citizenship
KW - Crimes against humanity
KW - Downfall
KW - Morality
KW - Retribution
KW - Rights
KW - Veterans
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U2 - 10.3167/arcs.2019.050108
DO - 10.3167/arcs.2019.050108
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85072119930
SN - 2164-4543
VL - 5
SP - 115
EP - 131
JO - Conflict and Society: Advances in Research
JF - Conflict and Society: Advances in Research
IS - 1
ER -