Abstract: Forced Disappearance as a Collective Cultural Trauma in the Ayotzinapa Movement

 

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Forced Disappearance as a Collective Cultural Trauma in the Ayotzinapa Movement

 

by  Tommaso Gravante

The disappearance of 43 students of the teachers’ training college at Ayotzinapa in 2014 has inspired a broad social movement. Ethnographic work and interviews conducted at several of the demonstrations to show solidarity with the parents of the students reveal that their forced disappearance has been framed by participants as a collective cultural trauma. The politicization of this trauma has led to a change in the relationship between citizens and public    institutions and produced a new social narrative.

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Abstract, Sealing and Unsealing Uruguay’s Transitional Politics of Oblivion: Waves of Memory and the Road to Justice, 1985–2015

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Sealing and Unsealing Uruguay’s Transitional Politics of Oblivion: Waves of Memory and the Road to Justice, 1985–2015
Gabriela Fried Amilivia                                                                  


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.

Abstract, Sealing and Unsealing Uruguay’s Transitional Politics of Oblivion: Waves of Memory and the Road to Justice, 1985–2015

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Sealing and Unsealing Uruguay’s Transitional Politics of Oblivion: Waves of Memory and the Road to Justice, 1985–2015
Gabriela Fried Amilivia                                                                  


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.

Abstract, Sealing and Unsealing Uruguay’s Transitional Politics of Oblivion: Waves of Memory and the Road to Justice, 1985–2015

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Sealing and Unsealing Uruguay’s Transitional Politics of Oblivion: Waves of Memory and the Road to Justice, 1985–2015
Gabriela Fried Amilivia                                                                  


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.