Beyond political propaganda: Peronism and culture in the magazine Mundo Peronista (1951 - 1955)

Abstract

Based on the magazine Mundo Peronista, one of the most important Peronist publications, and Michel de Certeau’s concept of culture, the aim of the article is to analyze the cultural production aligned with Perón’s government. Despite central guidelines such as the defense of the “national” and the “popular”, the Peronist politics and its cultural production were marked by different conceptions of these guidelines and by the incorporation or use of foreign cultural references. Despite the government’s control intentions and the persecution suffered by opposition artists, writers and intellectuals, cultural production aligned with Peronism was less monolithic than some analyses suggest.