The student protest in Argentina a century from the “Grito de Córdoba”: an approach to its phenomenology

In Argentina, the university reform of 1918 represents the moment from which the student body is configured as a political subject; since then, the activity of this sector has been continuous, except for a few lapses, and forms part of the cultural heritage of national university life to this day. In this article, I investigate how this student activism has materialized, as well as its evolution and the narratives that drive it. To do so, I journey from its earliest moments to the present, observing its how and why, by means of categories that refer to structure, identity, and especially, the cultural component of the social phenomenon in question. The objective, framed by the centennial commemoration of the 1918 milestone, is to map the trajectory of student protest in the country and the dynamics involved in its constitution, implementing analytical strategies seldom seen in the local literature on the subject.