Landscapes of Memory

Concentration Camps and Drought in Northeastern Brazil

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ID4501346
AuthorsMary Lorena Kenny (Eastern Connecticut State University), Mary Kenny (0000-0002-5352-7549, Eastern Connecticut State University, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume36
Issue5
Pages21-38
Publication date2009-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x09341977
OpenAlexW2079558359
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited51

Concentration camps were established in the Northeastern Brazilian state of Ceará in 1932 as a response to the displacement of thousands by severe drought. The experience of the camps, as reported by those who survived them, was one of privation and death. Residents of Senador Pompeu, the site of one such camp, commemorate the experience with an annual procession to the cemetery and are attempting to have the ruins of the camp declared "heritage." Marking such places as heritage is in many ways an intervention not only economically, as heritage tourism, but through the active critical processes of conscientization, communicating the violence that persists in contemporary society

Archaeology · Displacement (psychology · Environmental ethics · Ethnology · Geography · Intervention (counseling · Political science · Procession · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · State (computer science · Tourism · World heritage · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · History · Medicine · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Nursing · Philosophy · Psychology

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