Doctoral Dissertation Research: Production and Political Use of Social Science during Extended Periods of Cold War Unrest and Instability

项目概述这一历史研究探讨了阿根廷的心理科学如何成为冷战期间全球南方忠诚意识形态斗争的关键武器，其特点是政治不稳定，意识形态两极分化和流血。拟议的研究包括档案研究和采访阿根廷的主要历史人物。有两个核心问题，将调查：政治行为者如何使用心理科学，以推进意识形态的目标，在冷战期间的高度政治极端主义在阿根廷，从1966年至1983年？在这一时期，心理学家和精神病学家是如何将政治价值观嵌入心理学理论和实践的？本研究的重点是社会科学知识生产和动荡的政治之间的相互作用，特点是冷战赤道以下。冷战时期的社会科学研究，绝大多数集中在美苏两个超级大国和平稳定下的社会科学。相比之下，这项研究为越来越多的文献做出了贡献，这些文献探讨了冷战期间南半球的意识形态两极分化、草根激进主义和政治暴力如何影响社会科学的生产和政治使用。阿根廷提供了一个有用的研究案例，因为它在心理科学方面有着丰富的传统。更广泛的影响Co-PI计划在布宜诺斯艾利斯的研讨会和会议上向心理学家展示他的研究成果，并在西班牙语心理学杂志上发表，此外还在心理学会议上展示并在美国的心理学杂志上发表。共同主要研究者还计划将他收集的冷战期间政治活跃的心理学家的口述历史捐赠给阿根廷的Memoria Abierta口述档案馆。这样做不仅可以揭示由于政治镇压而导致文件稀少的时期，而且还可以促进人权组织的目标，即保存国家暴力的记忆，丰富民主文化，防止阿根廷独裁主义的回归。

Project OverviewThis historical study examines how the psychological sciences in Argentina became a crucial weapon in the ideological battle for loyalty during the Cold War in the global South, which is characterized by political instability, ideological polarization, and bloodshed. The proposed study includes both archival research and interviews with key historical actors in Argentina. There are two core questions that will be investigated: How did political actors use the psychological sciences to advance ideological goals during the height of Cold War political extremism in Argentina, from 1966 to 1983? How did psychologists and psychiatrists embed political values into psychological theory and practice during this period?Intellectual Merit This study focuses on the interaction between social-scientific knowledge production and the volatile politics that characterized the Cold War below the equator. The vast majority of Cold War studies of social science focus on social science under the peace and stability of the US and Soviet superpowers. By contrast, this study contribute to the growing body of literature that examines how ideological polarization, grassroots activism, and political violence in the global south affected the production and political use of social science during the Cold War. Argentina provides a useful case for study because of its rich tradition in the psychological sciences. Broader ImpactsThe Co-PI plans to present his research findings to psychologists at seminars and conferences in Buenos Aires and to publish in a Spanish-language psychology journal, in addition to presenting them at psychology conferences and publishing them in psychology journals in the US. The Co-PI also plans to donate his collected oral histories of psychologists who were politically active during the Cold War to the Memoria Abierta Oral Archive in Argentina. Doing so will not only shed light on a period for which documentation is sparse due to political repression, but also to advance the human rights organization's goals of preserving memory of state violence, enriching democratic culture, and preventing the return of authoritarianism in Argentina.