The aesthetics of memory

Ruins, visibility and witnessing

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3387367
AutoresMargarita Palacios (0000-0002-6458-9745, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume67
Fascículo3
Páginas602-620
Data de publicação2019-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0038026118818832
OpenAlexW2906363082
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas16

This article presents the findings of research regarding the transformation of the meaning of ex-detention and extermination sites in Chile. In the context of the increasing cost of land and the 'urban cleansing' associated with global processes of neoliberalization, the author reflects in particular upon the dynamics of visibility and erasure that accompany the life of these recent ruins, and the various politics of their memorialization. From a critical phenomenological perspective the author argues that ruins of sites of violence have the capacity to interrupt, transgress and even contradict narratives about them; furthermore, the relation between affect, ethics and aesthetics is discussed so as to raise questions about the possibility of witnessing and the challenges of memorialization

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Literature · Meaning (existential) · Memorialization · Narrative · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Relation (database) · Sociology · The Holocaust · Visibility · Visual arts · History · Law · Memory, violence, and history · Philosophy · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Political Theology and Sovereignty