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This article proposes the valorization of twelve railway and industrial complexes related to coffee production in the intermediate city of Pereira, Colombia, as constituent elements of a typology of agro-productive industrial heritage, till now unexplored in the Unesco declaration of the Coffee Cultural Landscape (2011). The resignification of these cultural assets is proposed in the context of the agro-productive territory, valuing them as elements that consolidated the role of the city as mediator of flows of goods and persons between rural and urban areas, while the railway was in operation (1921-1972). Based in analysis of historical archives, interviews with local actors, urban and architectural surveys, a territorial and architectural narrative is woven along the railway, identifying spaces, actors and temporalities of the local coffee production process, from rural production areas to industrialized urban regions. We highlight the potential of this new historical reading of the territory for valuing the spatial configurations of the modernization process of the region, for understanding the urban-rural dynamics and for strengthening the social memory of the industrial coffee spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the epistemological limits of the narration resulting from the specialized work on memory. It is based, on the one hand, on fieldwork carried out in the stilt villages of Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta (Colombia) between 2017 and 2018. The focus of the fieldwork was the local reception of the National Centre for Historical Memory (CNMH) report, published in 2014, on the paramilitary massacres that had occurred in that area. And, on the other, on the research team's participation in the writing of the CNMH report on anti-personnel mines in 2017. The strength of the text, a dialectical exercise between the anthropology of violence and the hermeneutical phenomenology, rests on it being a self-critical piece of work written from within the expert system. We propose the existence of a necessary representational distance (not contingent) between the account as a form of local expression and its translation into a narration that is projected outside the context in which local stories are produced. The article concludes that, beyond the very experience of violence represented in such accounts, it is the logic of the expert system that draws the contours of the politics of evidence in the field of memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides a look into tensions, initiatives and experiences related to some of the policies of memory, both official and non-official, that have assigned meaning to the past in Colombia in recent years. A deep insight on the origins and identity reconfiguration of Sons and Daughters for Identity and Justice against Forgetting and Silence (known in Spanish as H.I.J.O.S.) a collective that has negotiated different initiatives of historical memory reconstruction, one of them referenced in the article, for more than ten years. The policies of hegemonic memory in Colombia have established constant denial and invisibility of the systematic violations to Human Rights against different populations; they have also created tension and confrontation with the historical experience of movements and collectives that, as in the case of H.I.J.O.S., negotiate disruptive memories that oppose forgetting and confront impunity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a sociological interpretation about the way that space, collective identity and memory embody in the neighborhood La Fama, south of México City. Diverse ethnographic techniques were applied -as in-depth interviews, participant observation, mental maps, tours in the neighborhood with locals-. As we will see, the collective identity of the locals, has a close relationship with several vital places, which in turn are triggers of the intersubjective memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the production of the Memoria Histórica (MH: Historic Memory) Croup Colombian political violence and armed conflicts, analyzing the way the object of research has been studied and the connections this production has with memory policies and the construction of subjectivities. Even though the group distances itself from the official versions of history, their narrative becomes official history given the way the group has anchored itself into State memory policies. The group, by placing emphasis on the experiences and significations of victims, influences the understanding of conflict, the creation of subjectivities, and the formation of policy in a special way, revealing some of their configurations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues that 'heritage' is not an object, place or intangible event, but rather it is a performance or cultural process concerned with negotiating, creating and re-creating cultural memories, values and meanings. This process is obscured by the Authorized Heritage discourse (AHD). The paper critically analyses the AHD and draws on three case studies from England to illustrate some of the cultural work that the heritage performance undertakes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The basic problem that this article addresses are the challenges and possibilities that Web 2.0 offers historians in a globalized world: an archive that grows exponentially and chaotically, but that represents the digital memory of postmodern global society. It analyzes the concept of digital memory in relation to print culture and oral memory; the collective construction of hypertext; and the role that social networks have in the construction of what has been called the infinite archive. It also reflects on how to approach this infinite archive with historical criteria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes HIJOS, the human rights organization comprised of children of the victims of state terrorism in Argentina. It examines some of the distinctive characteristics of this group, particularly with regard to the ruptures and continuities with the practices of the human rights movement. It analyzes how the group emerged, shaped its collective identity, formulated its demands for justice, and tells stories about the recent past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article starts with the following questions: why is it important today to talk, write and think about memory in contexts of violence? Why is it crucial within the practices of everyday life, for the creation of identities and the construction of the future? How can we understand the importance of the politics and ethics of memory in contexts where the violence operates in different levels of everyday life? I began to raise these questions after exploring these issues in the last year with the Process of Black Communities, PCN, of the Pacific Coast in Colombia. Hence, my work explores the articulations between politics, cultural memory and violence that are established through the practice of this social movement in contemporary Colombia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]