Article ID: CBB676875807

Aviation for the People: Class and State Aviation in Perón's "New Argentina," 1946–55 (January 2022)

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This article investigates the culture and politics of aviation in mid-twentieth-century Argentina under Juan D. Perón's populist government. For enthusiasts around the world, aviation seemed poised for the long-prophesized "Air Age" transformations. Most emphasized the middle-class or elite nature of this quintessentially modern industry and its customers. Recent aviation scholarship in Europe and the United States has thus focused on affluent passengers or aircraft owners as the consumers of aviation technology. But this article reveals that Peronist Argentina implemented a massive political aviation program aimed at elevating socioeconomic conditions for the working classes. State media show that the authorities harnessed aviation as a technopolitical tool to both represent and enact their vision for a "New Argentina" by providing "dignified" work for the lower classes.

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Authors & Contributors
Downey, Greg
Camprubí, Lino
Felt, Ulrike
Hagood, Jonathan David
Jones, Steve
McCrossen, Alexis
Journals
Technology and Culture
History and Technology
Comparative Technology Transfer and Society
Environmental History
Science in Context
Social Studies of Science
Publishers
MIT Press
University of Washington
Cambridge University Press
Duke University Press
Lexington Books
The MIT Press
Concepts
Technology and society
Progress, ideas of
Technology and politics
Aviation
Social class
Technology
People
Peron, Juan Domingo
Russell, Bertrand Arthur William
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
18th century
Places
Argentina
United States
India
South Africa
Africa
Great Britain
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