Autor/es
Descripción
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Colaborador
Alonso, Luciano
Franco, Marina
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
2003-2015
Idioma
spa
Extent
314 p.
Derechos
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Formato
application/pdf
Identificador
Cobertura
ARG
2003-2015
Abstract
In the past few decade, the increasing intervention of the Argentine national state in the production of memories about the last military dictatorship was subject to different controversies both outside and within the academic sphere. However, the specific forms adopted by this intervention have still been scarcely studied. In this regard, this thesis aims to describe and analyze the role played by a set of state agencies in the production of “memory public policies” as they were developed during Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007) and Cristina Fernández (2007-2015) administrations. Specifically, the research seeks to account for the institutional modalities, the social actors and the frameworks of interpretation of the past that influenced, conditioned or determined the conception and implementation of a representative set of "memory public policies" throughout the period.
Even though from the transition to democracy different state agencies have developed very varied –and even contradictory– policies regarding the formation of memories about repression (Alonso, 2011), many authors agree that the presidential inauguration of Néstor Kirchner marked a point of cleavage (Carnovale, 2006, Lvovich and Bisquert, 2008, Da Silva Catela, 2011, and others). Taking this into account, our research aims to show the way in which state agencies incorporated the demand for "memory", as it was articulated by the human rights movement, but at the same time processed and transformed it according to a specific set of logics that it is necessary to unravel. From this point of view, our thesis aims to contribute both to the understanding of the creation and functioning of the state agencies that took "memory" as the cause for public action, as well as the ways in which each one of them displayed an “offer of temporary meaning" (Rabotnikof, 2007) to remember and narrate the recent past. What were the institutional and political conditions under which these "memory policies" were developed? Which actors intervened? What were the narrative frameworks put into play? What role did political identities play in the process?
To address these questions, the research analyzes from a sociohistorical perspective (Offerlé, 2011) the different practices carried out by a set of state agencies. These are: the Dirección Nacional de Derechos Humanos y Derecho Internacional Humanitario at the Ministry of Defense, in charge of the "opening", surveying and managing of the archives of the Armed Forces, the Dirección Nacional de Sitios de Memoria, at the Secretary of Human Rights, which implemented the "signaling" as "memory sites" of the places that were used as clandestine detention centers during State Terrorism and, finally, the Comisión de Trabajo por la Reconstrucción de Nuestra Identidad, in charge of the "reparation” of the personnel files that belonged to public servants who were disappeared or killed during the military dictatorship.
A comprehensive analysis of each of these agencies will allow us to account for the complexity entailed by the production of "memory policies" and the way in which different logics, narratives and actors were intertwined in the process. Also, it will allow us to identify the continuities and ruptures introduced by these agencies, in comparison to previous memory regimes, and indicate the way in which the interpretations of the past are oriented and tensed at the pace of logics of power and political identification. Finally, we will reflect on how the production of “public memory policies” entailed a specific liaison between a way of inhabiting state agencies (close to activism), a cause (the demand for "memory, truth and justice" as it was forged by the movement of human rights), and a community of remembrance, tied to Kirchnerism as a political identity.
Even though from the transition to democracy different state agencies have developed very varied –and even contradictory– policies regarding the formation of memories about repression (Alonso, 2011), many authors agree that the presidential inauguration of Néstor Kirchner marked a point of cleavage (Carnovale, 2006, Lvovich and Bisquert, 2008, Da Silva Catela, 2011, and others). Taking this into account, our research aims to show the way in which state agencies incorporated the demand for "memory", as it was articulated by the human rights movement, but at the same time processed and transformed it according to a specific set of logics that it is necessary to unravel. From this point of view, our thesis aims to contribute both to the understanding of the creation and functioning of the state agencies that took "memory" as the cause for public action, as well as the ways in which each one of them displayed an “offer of temporary meaning" (Rabotnikof, 2007) to remember and narrate the recent past. What were the institutional and political conditions under which these "memory policies" were developed? Which actors intervened? What were the narrative frameworks put into play? What role did political identities play in the process?
To address these questions, the research analyzes from a sociohistorical perspective (Offerlé, 2011) the different practices carried out by a set of state agencies. These are: the Dirección Nacional de Derechos Humanos y Derecho Internacional Humanitario at the Ministry of Defense, in charge of the "opening", surveying and managing of the archives of the Armed Forces, the Dirección Nacional de Sitios de Memoria, at the Secretary of Human Rights, which implemented the "signaling" as "memory sites" of the places that were used as clandestine detention centers during State Terrorism and, finally, the Comisión de Trabajo por la Reconstrucción de Nuestra Identidad, in charge of the "reparation” of the personnel files that belonged to public servants who were disappeared or killed during the military dictatorship.
A comprehensive analysis of each of these agencies will allow us to account for the complexity entailed by the production of "memory policies" and the way in which different logics, narratives and actors were intertwined in the process. Also, it will allow us to identify the continuities and ruptures introduced by these agencies, in comparison to previous memory regimes, and indicate the way in which the interpretations of the past are oriented and tensed at the pace of logics of power and political identification. Finally, we will reflect on how the production of “public memory policies” entailed a specific liaison between a way of inhabiting state agencies (close to activism), a cause (the demand for "memory, truth and justice" as it was forged by the movement of human rights), and a community of remembrance, tied to Kirchnerism as a political identity.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales
Identificador interno
Buenos Aires