Tareas de investigación, información e inteligencia en las policías argentinas del siglo XX: una escala sub-nacional

Abstract

This dossier proposes a more extensive chronology and geographical scale. The novelty lies in the fact that contributions have been selected from authors who in recent years have brought sub-national cases under the microscope. Thus, they are oriented to recompose the characteristics and practices of police surveillance, its forms of legitimation and the construction of the spied social actor. Likewise, the articles propose an interesting confluence of different historiographical perspectives such as studies on recent history, those that are interested in the history of the labor movement and the incidence of communism; along with approaches that come from the field of political science. In this framework, they also warn about the influence of early practices that settle in the objectification of the control and espionage mechanisms that were institutionalized since the mid-twentieth century.