Student movements in Latin America (1918-2011): A historiographical approach to their shared features

Abstract

The article presents the results of one historiographical research about Latin American student movements from an interdisciplinary perspective. Specifically, it identifies some shared features of four big student movements of the last hundred years: the Argentinian of 1918, the Brazilian of 1968, the Mexican of 1968 and the Chilean of 2011. This knowledge is relevant, among other reasons, because it based on an original temporal and spatial analysis scale in a field that has been dominated by analyses that considered only one student movement. The shared features for these four movements were identified through a systematic analysis that incorporated data and interpretations obtained from the main primary and secondary sources in the subject. Among the most important common attribute identified, it was found that all movements used a similar protest repertoire and that all defended the university autonomy.