Stories of "Dogs"

Stories of "Dogs"
Interviews with members of the Revolutionary Workers Party &People's Revolutionary Army of Argentina (PRT-ERP)
Author: Pablo Alejandro Pozzi
Publisher: Imago Mundi
ISBN: 978-950-793-126-0
Edition: April 2012
Genre: Social Sciences, History
Pages: 416
Format: 22x15
Hard copy price: $ 136 | u $ s 32 | € 24

Stories of "Dogs", Interviews with members of the PRT-ERP, provide eight specially selected interviews collected from an even broader body of evidence. Two of them have been previously published which are difficult to obtain. All were selected because it conveyed the interviewees had great relevance beyond the issue of armed struggle and PRT-ERP. Each has its specificity and gives an idea of the complexity of this organization and, above all, the society that produced it. At the same time, the interviews reveal the limitations of guerrilla proposal. Also, what matters is not whether the evidence is "truth" or not, but rather what they suggest about the story of a guerrilla organization and what it requires time to rethink the history and society of those years Argentina. They are merely suggestive, and evoke traditions, continuities, ruptures, feelings, or stories, which the guerrillas was a national phenomenon, covering all sectors of society whose roots lie in the history of this society troubled Argentina and complex.

In the first chapter of the book, Pozzi writes:"I ended up writing a book on the PRTERP for almost twelve years. That book was, for me, important because it was a way to respond questions I had and pay some bills with my past. After writing the book I never thought back to the subject. It was not, nor is my intention, turn this into "me" issue. Moreover, I finished writing the book and I devoted myself to other projects. But somehow there are issues that even though they shy away always come back. In this case my intention is not to continue with the investigation, but simply collect some of the interviews for this first investigation, and allow them to "speak" for themselves. As appropriate, an interview is not a form of transmission of the respondent, but it is a construct between interviewer and interviewee. The latter respond within the limits imposed by the questions and "authority" of the researcher. Also, between the two is a relationship of tension, tug of war, where what is meant, what is said and what is meant and what is asked from it never is really not what happened or how he is remembered. Simply is a way of transmitting evoke and memories."

Pablo Alejandro Pozzi Has PhD in History (SUNY at Stony Brook, 1989) and is whole regular full professor in the Department of History Faculty of Arts, University of Buenos Aires (UBA, Argentina). His specialty is the contemporary social history and history of the working class after 1945. He has published numerous articles and books on history and American society and Argentina. He is director of the Oral History Program of the Institute of Library Research, UBA. He was also member of the International Committee of the Organization of American Historians and the Editorial Board of the Journal of American History. He is currently Contributing Editor of the Journal of American History and Latin American Perspectives, a member of the Advisory Board of the National Archives of Institutional Memory, Human Rights Secretariat of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights Office. He was elected representative for Latin America at the International Council of the International Oral History Association and editor of Words and Silences the official publication of the IOHA, President (2010-2013) of the Oral History Association of Argentina (NOW), and Board member of the Latin American Oral History (RELAHO).