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Post‐Authoritarian State Formation in Argentina: Transitional Justice as the Accumulation of Symbolic Power
Author(s) -
Carmody Michelle Frances
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/johs.12128
Subject(s) - transitional justice , authoritarianism , legitimacy , democracy , human rights , state (computer science) , political science , power (physics) , symbolic capital , capital (architecture) , economic justice , latin americans , sociology , political economy , law , social science , geography , politics , physics , archaeology , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer science
Looking at the transitions to democracy in Latin America during the late 20 th century, a number of scholars observed that human rights and transitional justice had become the central legitimizing axis of the new, post‐authoritarian order. But the question of how human rights and transitional justice measures became such powerful sources of legitimacy in the first place was left unexplored. In this article I use Bourdieu's concept of symbolic capital along with Mara Loveman's explanation of the accumulation of this capital to explain how transitional justice came to function as a form of post‐authoritarian state formation in Argentina.