Memorializing in Movement: Chilean Sites of Memory as Spaces of Activism and Imagination

• Katherine Hite ^[1] ; Manuela Badilla Rajevic ^[2]
  1. [1] Vassar College

     Vassar College

     City of Poughkeepsie, Estados Unidos

     
  2. [2] New School of Social Research
• Localización: A Contracorriente: Revista de Historia Social y Literatura en América Latina, ISSN-e 1548-7083, Vol. 16, Nº. 3, 2019 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Spring 2019), págs. 1-16
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  • We argue that the defense of the Museum of Human Rights speaks to the power of memory as possibility, as foundational to ways collectivities understand the genealogies of violence and injustice in order to imagine otherwise. Moreover, memorial site protagonists have successfully challenged and accessed state resources toward representation and education regarding the violence of the past and toward alternative ways of imagining justice and human rights in the present and future