“De Néstor y Cristina. De Perón y Evita”. Reflexiones sobre lo acontecido con la militancia kirchnerista y la identidad peronista desde 2003 hasta hoy

Abstract

This paper intends to interpret the evolution of the relationship between kirchnerist activism and the peronist identity from 2003 to the present, postulating the following periodization: a) a first moment of de-peronization (desperonización) in the kirchnerist vocabulary, especially bewteen 2004 and 2005, under the shape of a party de-alienation (despejotización); b) a second moment of brief, that somehow failed, re-encounter with the Peronist Party (repejotización), with its formal reorganization and Kirchner conducting it, among other elements; and c) a third moment of re-peronization when we witness a new mutation of the “privileged” groups within the government-supporting ensemble —with the rise of La Cámpora and the proliferation, especially since 2010, of many heterogeneous organizations, mostly juvenile, but not organized under an organic political party front— and a return of peronist iconography and peronist traditional symbols, but this time reappropriated by activism that did not belonged to the Peronist Party.