The transition from the Instituto Tecnológico del Sur to the Universidad de la Libertadora (Bahía Blanca, 1956-1960)

Abstract

We propose to investigate the institutional transition that the National University of the South went through in the first years, 1956-1960 after the coup d'état of 1955, called the Liberating Revolution. Which was founded on the basis of the precursor Southern Technological Institute, founded in 1947 by Peronism. In order to understand the network of relationships and differentiations between one institution and another based on the particular trajectories of intellectuals or scientists who passed through the study house in the city of Bahía Blanca. In summary, in this article we are going to examine the continuities and discontinuities or their various degrees of cracking in their representations, ideologies and objectives based on their drastic restructuring and the attempts to eliminate their immediate past. To do this, we will analyze documentary sources, oral interviews and specific bibliography that deals with the period to contrast it with official historical views that reconstruct its past without being completely fazed by the rupture that the institutional transfer between the ITS and the UNS meant. In a certain way, these interpretations hide more than reveal the deep plot of situations, relationships, articulations, breaks and fissures with which the University created by the Liberating Revolution was constituted.