Mejía Jerez, Yuly Andrea Acevedo Tarazona, Álvaro
Objective: This article analyzes the role of La Casa de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos de las Mujeres (CMHDM) in the process of remembering the cultural trauma of the armed conflict in the Magdalena Medio region. Methodology: This exploratory and descriptive research conducts qualitative analysis and uses semi-structured interviews with creators...
Naval López, María Angeles
This paper sets out some general approaches to the joint study of the literatures narrating the processes of democratic transitions that took place in the last third of the 20th century. The use of the term transitional literatures is proposed to designate these literatures. Previous work on the documentation and interpretation of literature on the...
Cornejo Salinas, Giancarlo
Abstract: Queer activist Gio Infante was one of the most lucid voices of the Peruvian social movements. At the age of 31, Infante’s early death stopped a political and intellectual becoming that deserves to be revisited. Cultivating Gio Infante’s memories is an effort to dispute the problematic desires for social normalization of some LGBTQ subject...
Eccles, Mark
This text seeks to examine the performance work of Regina José Galindo. Our objective is to look at Galindo’s performance ¿Quién puede borrar las huellas? seeking to underline how political memory and affect—categories intrinsic to the work of Galindo—are at the core of a new emancipative language traceable in origin to the event. Embracing Alain B...
Lio Flores, Melisa
Objective: The purpose of this article is to analyze the debates and problems that arise when presenting visually the memories of absence and mourning in memory museums, particularly those located in Latin America through contemporary art of the last decades. Methodology: Initially, it contextualizes the debates on the definition of history and mem...
Sánchez del Olmo, Sara
Objective: The purpose of this work is to develop a critical reflection about the Memory and Tolerance (MyT) museum of Mexico. It aims to reveal the decisive role played by the entrepreneurs of this institution and to highlight how the individual characteristics of these promoters have had a crucial impact on the nature of the museum. At the same t...
Donoso Pinto, Catalina
This article examines the procedures of the theatrical play Proyecto Villa by Daniela Contreras and Edison Cajas, to explore the ways in which a memory of political violence is elaborated from certain collected objects and a spatial arrangement that reconstructs places in which torture was practiced by the repression apparatus. Proyecto Villa origi...
Merchán de las Salas, Fabián Alberto
As a tribute to Máximo Jiménez, who died recently, a musician, composer, member of ANUC (National Association of Peasant Users) and a committed social leader, I revise my musical practice when I used to accompany him as acaja player (a typical drum) in order to recognize in his songs and records a discourse —in the form of vallenato song— of resist...
Tobón Giraldo, Isabel Cristina Quiñones Torres, Aida Julieta Arévalo Villamor, Leidy
This article analyzes the complex relationships of places of memory from an interdisciplinary approach, to address the extractivist threats of the energy and mining sector and the interests of green business in the Galilea Forest. For this, the qualitative Participatory Action Research methodology was used, in collaboration with the social actors o...
SCHMITT, Ana Beatriz Araújo
Paulo Lopes, Imbituba e Garopaba – SC”. O objetivo do projeto é encontrar nas relações cotidianas e/ou silenciamentos quanto a manifestações de racismo e discriminação para com os estudantes originários das comunidades quilombolas. para atingir este objetivo buscamos, além de autores que trabalham questões de memória e aspectos étnico-raciais, as p...