In Search of Argentinidad: Identity Affirming Bodies in Movement in Latino-America

<p>This project is a multi-sited investigation into the production of Argentinidad (the embodied feeling of Argentine national identity) post the economic crisis of 2001 known as el <em>Argentinazo.</em> A special attention is paid to the role of the body as a culturally and socially mediated site of identity formation. Additionally, this project engages with the intersections of cultural and psychoanalytic theories that have influenced Argentinean self-identity in addition to social identities that are negotiated in moments of personal and national crisis. This project examines the roles and relationships of family and migration within Argentinean diasporic communities originating from the Provinces of Argentina and the suburbs of Buenos Aires and examines their individual and collective (re)settlement practices and rituals within global (Latino) cities such as New York City and Miami. Underscoring these stories are the themes of pain, power, and pleasure. This investigation posits that national identity informs how these groups use, move, care, and (re)present their bodies within identity affirming spaces.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Anthropology

Grantor

The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Maldonado-Salcedo, Melissa

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Murphy Halliburton

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• John Collin
• Ismael Garcia-Colon

• Arts and Humanities
• Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Latina/o Studies
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
• Medicine and Health Sciences
• Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
• Women's Studies
• Argentina
• Latino
• Diaspora
• Crisis
• Identity
• Gender
• Sexuality

Repository record dc:identifier

https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/1630

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:academicworks.cuny.edu:gc_etds-2642