Sealing and Unsealing Uruguay's Transitional Politics of Oblivion
Waves of Memory and the Road to Justice, 1985-2015
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4500975 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gabriela Fried Amilivia (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 103-123 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0094582x16658259 |
| OpenAlex | W2471386808 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 21 |
Three decades after state terror in Uruguay, counter memory making has endured in successive waves despite the official politics of oblivion, a transitional politics based on the denial of state abuses, absence of redress for victims, and impunity for perpetrators of the crimes of state terrorism. The Uruguayan case illustrates the impossibility of foreclosing memory through political engineering and the unsustainability of blanket impunity. It also highlights the long-term effects of ongoing social mobilization for memory and personal memorialization after social trauma and offers a sociocultural and intersubjective approach to the understanding of the generation of social memory after massive political violence. Tres décadas después del terrorismo de estado en el Uruguay, la construcción de la contramemoria ha resistido en oleadas sucesivas a pesar de una política oficial del olvido, una política de transición basada en la negación de los abusos del estado, la ausencia de reparaciones para las víctimas y la impunidad para los responsables de los crímenes del terrorismo de estado. El caso uruguayo ilustra la imposibilidad de impedir la construcción de la memoria por medio de la ingeniería política y la falta de viabilidad de una impunidad general. También pone de manifiesto los efectos a largo plazo de una continua movilización social por la memoria y la memorialización personal después del trauma social y ofrece un enfoque sociocultural e intersubjetivo para entender la generación de la memoria social después de periodos de enorme violencia política
Art · Humanities · Impunity · Political science · Politics · State (computer science) · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Memory, violence, and history · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America
The struggle for recognition
Presenting the Past
Democracy at the Crossroads
Fear at the Edge
After Violence
Human Rights in Latin America
Of HI J OS and Niños
Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity
Civil Society and the Resurgent Struggle against Impunity in Uruguay (1986-2012)
A Miracle, a Universe
Uruguay
The Condor years
Danger and Deformation
Irruptions of Memory
Piecing Memories Together after State Terror and Policies of Oblivion in Uruguay
Healing from History
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |