Editing from Exile: CELATS-ALAETS Newsletter as an exercise in resistance (1976-1985)

Abstract

Based on the tools provided by the Intellectual History and the approach to the History of the Book and Publishing, this article focuses on the material analysis of the process of production and circulation of the CELATS-ALAETS Newsletter between 1976-1985. We will start from understanding the group of social workers gathered at the Latin American Center for Social Work, in Lima, as intellectuals who intervened in the political and social situation of those years through the writing of their newsletter. The approach to the copies allows us to visualize how the editing tasks in exile, made possible resistance exercises that initially included denunciations of authoritarianism and repressive situations and later, interventions on the path started towards democratic transitions. Consolidating in this way a transnational intellectual network that maintained communication with the Schools of Social Work and associations that suffered repression.