Neither words nor materiality are enough
The role of testimony in the preservation of an Argentine clandestine detention center
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6442272 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Valentina Rozas-Krause (0000-0001-8317-314X, Adolfo Ibáñez University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 180-197 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Memory Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/17506980241247273 |
| OpenAlex | W4396746023 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
The essay analyzes the efforts to preserve Club Atlético, a site that served as a clandestine detention, torture, and killing center under the Argentine civic-military dictatorship (1976–1983). Located in the south part of Buenos Aires, Club Atlético is a memory site in ruins: its materiality challenges architectural design conventions. Examining (1) historical artifacts, the (2) archeological excavation, and (3) a virtual reconstruction of Club Atlético, this article reveals the multiple ways in which a site of memory can be represented, beyond the traditional memorial. Focusing on these three scales, it explores the relationship between the many written and oral survivors’ testimonies and the material evidence retrieved from the site, while also recognizing the tensions that emerge from Club Atlético’s dual function as archeological site and space of memory. Ultimately, the article reveals, how testimony is used to draw physical and metaphorical boundaries between the site as a place of memory and the site as heritage
Aesthetics · Art · Center (category theory · Criminology · Forensic engineering · Materiality (auditing · Political science · Sociology · Terrorism · World trade center · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Engineering · History · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Memory, violence, and history
The battle of Valle Giulia
“They Must Have Done Something Wrong…”
Memory, History, Forgetting
Eichmann in Jerusalem
Relations in Public. Microstudies of the Public Order
The Engineering of Genocide
The Materialization of Sadism; Archaeology of Architecture in Clandestine Detention Centers (Argentinean Military Dictatorship, 1976–1983)
The Everyday Life of Memorials
State Repression and the Labors of Memory
Empathic unsettlement and the outsider within Argentine spaces of memory
A topography of memory
Containing absence, shaping presence at ground zero
The Least of All Possible Evils
The Index of the Absent Wound (Monograph on a Stain)
Pandora's hope
El testimonio en el espacio
(Sobre)vidas
Returning to the Site of Horror
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |