Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 06/2010

Discurso y narración en las dinámicas de constitución identitaria. La experiencia kirchnerista en Argentina

María Mercedes Patrouilleau

February 2010

CONfines de Relaciones Internacionales y Ciencia Política

Abstract

Discourse and narrative in the dynamics of identity construction: The Kirchnerist experience in Argentina

The presidencial discourse has regained interest since the current theory of populism, and in Agentina specially from discursive interpellation of its main leaders in last years, Néstor Kirchner y Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. This work examines discoursive interpellation of both leaders emphasizing the narrative dimension of discourse. Kirchnerismo as political subject proposes a new meaning of traditional elements of the national and popular (and Peronism in particular), by the promotion of an “historic citizenship” for Argentines and the articulation of a political history along a path marked by institutional disruption.