Placing Latin American memory
Sites and the politics of mourning
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12905199 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jens Andermann (University of Zurich, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-8 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Memory Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1750698014552402 |
| OpenAlex | W2331159996 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 13 |
This introduction sketches out some spatial and locational aspects of memory and mourning in postdictatorial Latin America. The special issue aims to shed light on memorial sites’ role in the process of reclaiming individual and collective stories from victims of dictatorial repression. If, as Susana Draper has argued, during Latin America’s “return to democracy,” an “architectonics of transition” inscribed in urban spaces new diagrams of citizenship and exclusion predicated on the timeless present of consumption, memory’s “architectures of affect” commemorating victims of past state terror represent both an interruption and a challenge to neoliberalism’s postdictatorial city. Beyond the limits of the urban, rural landscape and the marking of diasporic locations of exile overseas also speak to the dispersive and uprooting effects of violence. The collection also asks for the frictions emerging between global forms of commemoration and local constellations of historical experience as manifest in particular sites
Art · Citizenship · Collective memory · Democracy · Historical memory · Humanities · Inscribed figure · Latin Americans · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Politics of memory · Sociology · State (computer science · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
On how to remember
Provincializing memory studies
An Angel for the Dead
How ‘creative’ is remembering? Culture-led regeneration and the politics of memory in Bogota, Colombia
Descending into hell’
Milieus of memory
Reparation policies in Colombia
Testimony of terrorism
The (de)tours of memory
Mnemonic splinterings and disciplinary convergences
Mining, meaning and memory in the Andes
Radical Space
Space and place
Where Memory DwellsCulture and State Violence in Chile
Afterlives of Confinement
The Last Colonial Massacre
The Archive and the Repertoire
Multidirectional Memory
Between Prospero and Caliban
Holding the Junta Accountable
Present Pasts
Returning to the Site of Horror
Expanded Fields
| Citations per year | 1.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |