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The text alludes to how the construction of memory about collective self-organization processes, such as expressions of resistance to the process of gentrification and touristification initiated in the center of Madrid (Spain) between 1997 and 2003 and until the present day, has generated powerful dissidence among the inhabitants. This is based on documental and iconographical material located in the archive of the Centro Social El Laboratorio, as well as in the voices found in the fabric of the community in the Lavapiés neighborhood (Madrid), in the struggle for the rights to the city, which implies a debate between tradition and modernity. This allows us to appreciate how memory in the context of a territory constructs and reconfigures based on lived experiences and conflicts, and how the memory of resistance in itself becomes a way to debate both the past and present literature regarding the territory. In this way, it is intended to problematize the ways of looking at the past, as well as the way of thinking and imagining «other» forms of social organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes an analysis of Rodrigo Hasbún's 2015 novel, Los afectos, that sheds light on new forms of giving meaning to reality in the contemporary Bolivian novel. Based on a hypothesis that identifies the narrative strategies the novel uses to fictionalize family memory and national history, I argue that Los afectos explores new connections between aesthetics and politics. Although Hasbún's novel draws attention for its polyphonic structure and plurality of modes of enunciation from which the different narrators position themselves, this innovative proposal is limited by narrative mechanisms that impose forms of control over fictionalized memory, closing any possibility to imagine new relationships between history, memory, and narration. The novel does, however, leave open the possibility that, thinking from an affective point of view, more democratic ways of building shared memories may emerge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper aims to investigate the reconstruction of identity and memory of an aphrodiasporic collective through the narrative Becos da Memória, by Conceição Evaristo. Narratives that constitute themselves by black experiences in diaspora raise concepts of subjectivities that deconstruct a hegemonic and dominant narrative. Through this work, there is a possibility to explore life experiences of these subordinate individuals which claim for their voices to be heard and their narratives to be modified by the awareness of their reality. Therefore, exploring the different stories of characters is to see the significant and painful role of the diaspora in the conception of these fictional individuals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The process of recovering the historical memory in biographical and autobiographical writtings is no longer restricted to an exclusive field of research. Authors such as Georges Bataille, John Hersey and Beatriz Sarlo scrutinize the correlations between History and memory in the literature, evaluating ethical matters and issues of social nature. In the light of this studies, this paper comments some excerpts of Assombrações do Recife Velho (1955), work of the sociologist Gilberto Freyre and Baú de ossos (1972), first volume of Pedro Nava's memoirs. The objective is to expose how fictional and historical elements are articulated in both works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since this is a matter that is not yet resolved, where the strength of ideologies and reuses may change deeply or even reverse the ways it is evoked, the colonial past may become a problem (Vecchi, 2018a). This is the case of Portuguese colonialism which is frequently invoked to stress resentments: whether from the country that was colonised or the colonising country (Ferro, 2009). As soon as the Portuguese Revolution of 25 April 1974 took place, Mozambique promoted the elimination of colonialism symbols. This predictable attitude, aiming to show that the colonisation had ended, was later amended by the future Governments, with the colonial statues (at least, the ones that remained) being relocated to a place where they may be observed and contextualised. This action aimed to preserve the memory, which may enable the development of intercultural dynamics, softening the mentioned resentment: promoting questioning, in order to understand certain logics and, at the same time, filling gaps in the forgotten memory and in the Mozambican identity (Khan, Falconi & Krakowska, 2016). This paper refers to the cases related to the new life of two colonial statues in Maputo - Mouzinho de Albuquerque and Salazar -, during the post-colonial period and the permanence, until today, of the first monumental trace of Estado Novo [Second Republic] (Monumento aos Mortos da Primeira Guerra Mundial [World War I monument]), showing the importance that the preservation of memory has in a country or a nation's life, even when it is associated with the former coloniser. This sort of mental decolonisation (Mbembe, 2017; Thiong'o, 1986), aims the questioning of the way the colonial past weighs on the current intercultural relations, in Mozambique, when the country establishes a relation with the former coloniser, allowing its inhabitants to look at the past as a way to build future dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our article contains four times that interweave in order to account for the outcome that has gone through the concept of memory and its relation to transitional justice. We therefore consider it imperative to analyze the current social reality from a special context and how such graphical situation like the domestic violence has been forgotten by its main protagonists: the citizens. This will allow us to understand our present regarding our indifference and ignorance is concerned. It also reviewed the role of history, not as a mere recorder of time, but as the architect of a construction that aims to establish ties with transitional justice so that social coexistence, not to the detriment of the state and a democracy which itself prove to be fragile in structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Memory and oblivion have been, since the emergence of our species in this world, signifiers that named the great challenge of symbolic survival in the world of life. It is the constant struggle to record not only our own existence, but a way to move it, build it and live it, thus exorcising the ghost of oblivion; because oblivion is the enemy of life itself, it is the name of the lost experience. What would become of us if we forget experiences - beyond their beauty or pain--and the learning that, many times with great effort, we have stepped into this entanglement between the human species and the passing of time? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From a critical-exploratory positioning this article discusses sedimented forms of understanding and mean the "student" figure as well as his/her representations in gender terms in the written narratives of the student's movements in Mexico. A crosslinking of gender, history-memory studies and political discourse analysis is proposed as an alternative mode for the transformation of traditional forms of historical research and as an attempt to contribute to the discussion and revaluation of narratives about these past events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Memories of the town of Guaíra on the Brazilian-Paraguayan border and exhibited in the Sete Quedas Museum, are analyzed and contrasted with those of other social groups, namely Indigenes and fishermen. The later discuss such issues as migration, work, environmental preservation and heritage. A variety of concepts, opinions, disputes and tensions emerges. [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 analyzes the official proposal for recent history teaching. For such purpose, we draw on national education laws (1993 and 2006), the curricula approved from 1995 to present for the secondary level (at the national level and at the Province of Buenos Aires) and regulations of the commemorations--especially March 24th and September 16th--. This analysis will be made in relation to the representations of memory and the progress of historiography about recent past, to consider up to what extent school contents have witnessed an impact due to changes in these narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a reflection on the relation between archives and history and memory. History aims at posing questions that contribute to understanding how memory operates in archives. These questions include the following: In what ways does the archive configure memory and history? How are power and symbolic relations configured in the archive? What changes are involved in an institutionalization process? In order to outline our position in light of these questions, we begin by offering several reflections on individual and collective memory. Next, from a philosophical perspective, we point out some aspects of the archive, relating these with question of origins and power in the archive's use for history. Then, from a sociological perspective, we demonstrate how the archive is institutionalized and appropriated by a collectivity, and, finally, provide an example that demonstrates the intersections and approaches presented in the previous items. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]