Abstract

CERVINO, Mariana. On the construction of a dissident habitus: Jorge Gumier Maier (1953‐1984). Trab. soc. [online]. 2013, n.21, pp.317-336. ISSN 1514-6871.

This article aims to observe the intellectual production fields that remained active during the last dictatorship in Argentina. We propose to interprete the values involved in the different artistic options and practices of Jorge Gumier Miaer, in order to identify the symbolic, political and moral universes that define the type of social actor he represents. His mode of construction as intellectual, place him at a type who we can call "vocational" and "dissident". The first trait refers to the particular relationship he builds with the culture goods, where art is inseparable from life. The second of its properties refers that other regularity we can follow in his options: in differents ways, they are always opposed to the dominant values and criteria of the global society. From his family background, and fragments of its interventions in alternative and oppossed publications within the dictatorship, we track the genesis of the dispositions of Gumier Maier (his habitus). His intellectual interventions let us identifie an artistic and intellectual ethos, that goes more beyond its case, representing a type of agents inside the peripheric area of the cultural field through the period, that emerge into the field itself, from the return of democracy. We will regard, on one hand the evolution of the field since 1978 to 1984, and secondly, the elements of continuity that link the social spaces around cultural publications as El Expreso Imaginario (The imaginary express), El Porteño (The Porteño) and Sodoma (Sodom).

Keywords : Cultural field of Buenos Aires; Dictatorship; Habitus; Dissident intellectuals; Homosexualities; Vocation.