Hacia una reconstrucción de los conflictos de la memoria. El caso del Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos en Chile

Mauro Basaure

doi:10.5354/0718-0527.2017.47278

Hacia una reconstrucción de los conflictos de la memoria. El caso del Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos en Chile

Mauro Basaure

Universidad Andres Bello

Resultado de la investigación: Review article

Resumen

The article asserts that memory plays an intermediary role between political present and history. As political present is intrinsically a matter of dispute, memory transfers this dispute into history by politically attributing cognitive or normative significance to selected events and periods. I argue that four different and potentially controversial forms of memory emerge from this, namely, a positive and a negative cognitive form of memory, on the one hand, and a negative and a positive socio-integrative form, on the other hand. The conflictive link between these forms of memory defines what I call controversies or disputes of memory. By elaborating on different theoretical reflections about the relation between politics, history, and memory, I firstly construe an original framework to analyze disputes of memory and subsequently I apply this to the public controversy between 2007 and 2016 regarding the installation and functioning of the Chilean Museum of Memory and Human Rights. The article concludes that criticisms of political positions concerning the relation between politics and history produce different and colliding forms of cognitive or socio-integrative memory, which creates a fluctuating time trajectory for memory.

Idioma original	Spanish
Páginas (desde-hasta)	113-142
Número de páginas	30
Publicación	Revista Mad
N.º	37
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-0527.2017.47278
Estado	Published - 2017

Huella dactilar

Chile

museum

human rights

reconstruction

history

history politics

present

criticism

politics

event

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Social Sciences(all)

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Basaure, M. (2017). Hacia una reconstrucción de los conflictos de la memoria. El caso del Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos en Chile. Revista Mad, (37), 113-142. https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-0527.2017.47278

Basaure, Mauro. / Hacia una reconstrucción de los conflictos de la memoria. El caso del Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos en Chile. En: Revista Mad. 2017 ; N.º 37. pp. 113-142.

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Hacia una reconstrucción de los conflictos de la memoria. El caso del Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos en Chile. / Basaure, Mauro.

En: Revista Mad, N.º 37, 2017, p. 113-142.

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