Militants and combatants. Latin America and peripheral circulations, 1939-1991

Abstract

The formation of individual and collective identities, the configuration of political spaces, and the structuring of ideologies and social orders are mediated by phenomena of circulation. In the case of studies devoted to the Cold War, the notion of “circulation,” that is, the punctual or permanent movement of actors across geographic, linguistic, and cultural borders, has given rise to works that reinterpret the most diverse transnational modalities of diffusion and appropriation of ideas. The themes are varied and include the displacement of individuals who carried world views and practices derived from liberalism and socialism, the action of groups inspired by conservative ideologies of a corporatist and National Socialist nature, and finally, the impact of the methods and objectives of Asian and Latin American guerrillas on the world of decolonization.