Historiographies in perspective:

“collaborationism” and political gender violence in the dictatorships of Chile and Argentina

Abstract

This article presents elements of the comparative research I am conducting as a visiting professor at the Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD) and presents collective contributions arising from the presentation that gives the text its title, delivered at the 33rd National History Symposium, held at UFMG in July 2025. We analyze works considered seminal for the development of historical writing and the memory of militants in revolutionary organizations who specifically survived "collaboration," which in turn was discussed as a form of repression and gender-based political violence applied through distinct strategies during the dictatorships of Chile (1973-90) and Argentina (1976-83). We discuss the development of this theme in the historical writing of both countries, considering the mobilization of gender as an analytical category in each case and linking the narratives to their historical moments of emergence. We hope to contribute to studies of the history and memory of dictatorships in the Southern Cone that avoid dichotomies and intertwine violence and resistance to understand ambiguities, contradictions of the recent past and their effects on the present from an ethical-political perspective of History.