Democratic Traditions and Student Itineraries: Buenos Aires University during the Crisis Period [1996-2006]

Abstract

This article is the result of a research on students from Philosophy and Literature Faculty and Social Sciences Faculty of Buenos Aires University and their experiences during what is called the crisis period [1996-2006]. It is focused on student itineraries, reflections and memories of university life during this period and reconstruct their paths in order to show a plural heterogeneous spectrum of experiences, showing different ways of passing trough university. What goes into tension with democratic aspirations of public discourses about university