Historia Crítica

Hist. Crit. | eISSN 1900-6152 | ISSN 0121-1617

Corporal Salesian Education in the Military Government of Comodoro Rivadavia, 1944-1955

No. 53 (2014-05-01)
  • Gabriel Carrizo
https://doi.org/10.7440/histcrit53.2014.05

Abstract

In this paper we will analyze the ways in which the corporal discourse became part of the Salesian educational community in what is known as the Military Government of Comodoro Rivadavia, between 1944 and 1955. Starting in the mid-1930s, the Salesian congregation fostered, with the aid of the Administración de Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales (YPF: Treasury Petroleum Fields), technical education for youngsters that would later become part of the state owned oil company. We will show that, by opening a Technical School in 1937, the Church expected to bring the Christian Doctrine closer to the world of labor, and with this, to a specific form of masculinity.

Keywords: Argentina, central Patagonia, masculinity, corporal discourse, Church-education relationship