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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 paper presents some results of an ethnographic research, that during the last three years has been dedicated to record and analyse the practices of commemoration of the "dirty war" (guerra sucia) in Mexico. This involves articulating the memories of both violence and resistance. Strategies used by Mexican government during the dirty war, expressed a policy of fear -criminalization of protest, murder, forced disappearance and torture-; at the same time, resistance strategies form civil society such as marches, protests, tributes and commemorative days are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Some routes of analyses around the following question: How to incorporate ethically the problem in their daily actions, and similarly, how to avoid the successful strategies of oblivion and indifference? are addressed in this paper. Certain emphasis is made on the gained importance that the popular processes have specially those related to the youth, while, thanks to their narratives, they increase and succeed, on a daily basis, over the authoritarian rhetoric seeking to silence memory. [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]