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This article proposes to disseminate the impact of neuroeducation and metaverses on the processes of reception, understanding and interpretation of cultural and bioemotional memory derived from identity, essentially in Latin American peoples. With a qualitative approach, a systematic review of scientific literature on digital literacy, educommunication, emotional education and memory is proposed, since the end of the 20th century, to fragment certain neoliberal molds and stereotypes. The results suggest that neuroeducation and metaverses contribute to a better use of qualifying moments, which act in learning and in the fixation of cultural semantic memory. Significant resources build the individual and collective imagination, affirm identity and socio-cultural behavior. It concludes that these didactic applications and the collaboration of resources with the indicated indicators contribute to the development of cultural values and cognitive, psychological and social competencies that affect a person's behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the construction of a multifaceted collective memory through the main female protagonists in Song of the Water Saints (2002) by the Dominican American author Nelly Rosario. By bridging memory studies, Latin American studies, and Afro-Latinx studies, the book examines racial and gendered constructs, intergenerational struggles, US imperialism, and Rafael Trujillo’s dictatorship to show the interconnected nature of memorial articulations for subaltern subjects. Through a literary close reading, this article dissects the lives of three generations of female characters—Graciela, her daughter Mercedes, and Graciela’s great-granddaughter Leila—and how they challenge, reinforce, and suffer racialized, political, and gendered subjectivities. By examining intersectional and historical trauma simultaneously, this study contributes to the field of memory, Afro-Latinx, and Latin American studies by showing the muddled construct of memory for Dominicans and Dominican Americans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the results of research based on the experience of training in audiovisual creation led by 15 young people from the village of San Diego in Samaná, Caldas. Objective: to show how opening up learning scenarios around the audiovisual language enhances dialogue between different generations and promotes reflections on the meaning of the community's past. Methodology: the process is framed within the postulates of Participatory Action Research (PAR). Its development takes place through Create Communication workshops, which have two objectives: 1) to train young people in theoretical, technical, and practical knowledge for audiovisual production through the use of mobile devices with "Smartphone" technology; 2) to link the technical knowledge acquired by young people, their interests with respect to the historical memory, and the collective memory of the township for the creation of audiovisual products. Results: the creation of audiovisual narrative content made it possible to facilitate reflections and dialogue between young people and members of the community, as well as generate learning scenarios and foster appropriation of different events that have left their mark on the community of San Diego. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The memorial space emerges as aterrain of symbolic legitimizationofmemories and images of the past with a presentist vocation, which seeks to modulate the representations of the time lived. The political uses of the past are not a novelty and collective memory has regulated the memories of communities for centuries thanks to the performance of different frameworks or, in Nora's words, memory spaces. This paper attempts to approach the mechanisms of memorial reproduction, in order to explain why Cuba has become the repository of a Napoleonic memory and at the same time the disseminator of the golden legend of the Great Corsican. From collectionism, operated at different scales, to the pantheonization of a legendary image with the creation of a public museum, the text also aims to explain the factors that have encouraged the reproduction of the Napoleonic myth in Caribbean waters. The research relies on a diversity of sources ranging from the latest theoretical approaches to the subject to archival sources, files of pieces from museum collections, press of the time and audiovisual media. The complexity of a phenomenon such as memory and, in particular, Napoleonic memory, makes this interdisciplinary approach necessary, combining efforts from history, sociology, the arts and collectionism, to understand the origin and the plenitude of a phenomenon that has its roots in the nineteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a state of the discussion on the social studies of memory in relation to different types of socio-natural disasters. The objective of the research was to examine the scientific production in the conceptual triad memory-disaster-identity to facilitate the understanding of the field of study and encourage research interest. To this end, it reviewed academic production between 2000 and 2020 at the national, Latin American, and global levels. Eighty-three texts were compiled and analyzed, showing concern for assessing the incidence of the disaster in the configuration of the processes of remembering and forgetting of the affected individuals, of society and of the disruptive event itself. The results show that, although significant progress has been made in the twenty years analyzed, the disciplinary field is still fragile in countries with a high propensity for disaster risk. Thus, the main conclusion that can be drawn is related to the insufficiency of studies that recover the memories of socio-natural disasters, that collect the voices of their victims, and that vindicate them as a form of material and symbolic reparation, after the disruptive event that transforms the existence of those affected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 1990s represented a decade marked by the fall of communism and the emergence of a free and capitalist society in Czechoslovakia (and its successor, the Czech Republic). With the passage of time, the motifs of the decade's memories begin to show in Czech prose; the literary representations of the memory of the 1990s can be usually found, among others, in the works of authors of the young generation who lived in the post-revolutionary period during their childhood or adolescence. In our study, through the analysis of excerpts from novels written by authors from this generation, we observed and characterized the different modes of this collective memory, in which nostalgia predominates, but social criticism and signs of trauma can be found as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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 paper aims to conduct a thematic and comparative analysis after the concepts of landscape, space, place and memory in six texts by Vitorino Nemésio and Cecília Meireles in which the Atlantic islands of the Azores archipelago are represented. In these texts, the landscape is a manifestation of the authors'ontological topography, resulting in a subjective construction process that re-signifies the places of the islands. In common, these texts have the themes of the islanders' life simplicity, isolation and poverty. If these traits bring them close, others separate them. In Nemésio, the islands are transfigured into a tourist landscape and migration space, reflecting the substance and the constraints of Azoreanness. In contrast, in Cecília, the island is a place in the frontier of the real and the imaginary, constructed by the poet's fantasy, emotional geography and childhood memories. In Nemésio, the texts manifest images of individual and collective memory, whereas, in Cecília, the work of memory facilitates an escape from reality and a journey to the realisation of the lost paradise myth: the Island of Nanja. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes historical memory in the context of the recent controversies of the National Center for Historical Memory and the precautionary measures decreed by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace over the archives of the National Museum of Memory in order to protect them from modification or alteration. To achieve this analysis, a brief description of the relationship between memory and conflict is made; then there is a definition of historical memory in the framework of transitional justice; subsequently, the role of the Memory Centers is interpreted from the point of view of international law, its conception as part of the cultural and intangible heritage of humanity; and finally, the idea of a general clause of material immutability of the Memory Centers is raised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Glória Anzaldúa defends the recreation of the self-history of Chicano women, which would culminate in the recreation of the cultural history of the entire group. In this perspective, Ana Castillo argues in favor of revisiting and reinterpreting traditional models imposed on Chicano women to decolonize and rethink them as sources of strength and power without this meaning the destruction of all inherited traditional values of the Amerindian ancestry and Spanish influence. Thus, the objective of this article is to rescue and at the same time rewrite the collective memory in So Far from God (1993), by Ana Castillo, through the analysis of the search for decolonialization and the reconquest of the authority and spirituality of Chicano women symbolized in the construction of the character La Loca Santa; a representation that mixes the Amerindian ancestral mother goddess Tonantzin with the Catholic mother of Spanish colonial origin Guadalupe. Thus, we will reflect on the characteristics of Tonantzin, the historiography of Guadalupe, as implications of women's religiosity in the identity of Chicano women and the development of the character that evokes these two divine mythical figures. For this, I will use the theories of Jeanette Peterson (1992), Amaia Ibarraran Bigalondo (1999), Michelle Sauer (2000), Glória Anzaldúa (2012, 2015), Ana Castillo (2014), Simona Lozovski (2016), Yuderkys Miñoso (2020), among others. We conclude that La Loca Santa is conceived as a syncretic figure that builds a world outside the limits of colonial, capitalist and patriarchal domination within the house itself through a positioning that rescues at the same time that it rewrites the spiritual authority of Chicano women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to delve into the underlying trends of the contemporary historiography of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Under the guidance of historical accounts developed outside Spain before the end of the Francoist dictatorship (1939-1977), and during the transition to democracy (1977-1983), some Spanish historians strove to write a bias-free and fact-based depiction of the war and its aftermath. By relying on close readings of historical documents, those historians assumed their methodology to be the most accurate when dealing with historical events that are so contested. However, recent shifts in the way this past has been remembered in Spain have produced a historiography endorsing new perspectives, which has also given rise to controversies among historians regarding the scope of and the assumptions underlying their work. To understand the currents of these debates, this paper echoes these groundbreaking approaches and attempts to illuminate how the influence of the social movement of «historical memory» has led Spanish historians to question their assumptions and endorse a more heterodox and interdisciplinary approach to engaging with the history of the Spanish Civil War. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article aims to discuss the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on public institutions of Early Childhood Education, in a municipality in the metropolitan region of Curitiba, PR, from the memory of managers about social isolation, pedagogical referrals, maintenance of professional education in their positions, the participation of parents and the total development of children. The subjects' narratives were analyzed considering their subjectivities and their spaces of power. The research was carried out from the perspective of Cultural History, supported by Chartier (2002), Delory-Momberger (2014) and Lima, Geraldi and Geraldi (2015), among others. From a methodological point of view, the study had a bibliographic, documentary and field nature. The research allowed deepening and tensioning the different subjectivities of professionals in Early Childhood Education, in a collective space, through memories related to the historical moment experienced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The dossier proposes to intertwine the production of knowledge in education that involves analytical dimensions based on memories, subjectivities and dissonant identities. COVID 19 demanded other conceptions about individual and collective identities mediated by social, political and cultural mechanisms. The texts presented here bring together educational dialogues, objectified subjective trajectories, spaces of power, feminisms, memories and stories that make up the broad process of discursive practices about inclusion, empowerment and coping with situations of exclusion in the context of cultural diversities. We argue, in general, that subjectivities, as a way of self-annulment and/or self-knowledge, can be problematized, tensioned and neglected in different context of Education. In this sense, we bring together in this dossier research (essays as a form) that project dialogues about how identities and otherness are forged in practices from collective memories and subjectivities, which in the pandemic context, were also collective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article comes from an interdisciplinary reflection about the relationship between memory and geographic space. Based on a bibliographic survey analysed through a historical-materialist perspective, we defend the view that the objective things created by humans through work, and the space that is constituted by the set of these objects, absorb the social meanings and incorporate the collective memories. They work as the great references of individual and collective memory. However, when approached as commodities, man-made things and geographical space cease to be these references, leading to the conclusion that there is a separation between the particularity of the object/space-as-memory and the generality of the object/space-ascommodity. [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]

This paper uses the critical reflections of Jeffrey Barash on the matter of the symbol in the works of Paul Ricoeur. The interpreter, interested mostly in the locus of collective memory that can be found in Memory, History, Forgetting, considers the urge of abandoning Husserl's concept of analogy, used by Ricoeur. For this purpose, he draws our attention to the concept of symbol that Ricoeur avoids developing in the context of the discussion on memory. Consequently, he researches the background of the matter in Freud and Philosophy (1965) and Time and Narrative (1983-1985). In this paper, I will try to show that the course imparted in Chicago in 1975, Lectures on Ideology and Utopia, is the appropriate work to answer from the perspective of symbolism to the problems of the constitution of collective memory through the contribution made by Ricoeur in his work on ideology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses some of the main contributions of digital history in the preservation of historical memory and the construction of alternative narratives that dispute traditional discourses on the question of Palestine. This research is informed by digital history and the digital humanities within the context of the Nakba, as well as Israeli policies of memoricide against the Palestinian population. The article covers three significant digital projects that seek to recover the memory of the Nakba and cultivate Palestinian narratives around this phenomenon, with remarkable success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This review examines the advances, changes and critical setbacks that occurred in the field of memory and violence in post-dictatorship Southern Cone. Many of the contributions published in Anclajes in the last decades make up a corpus of interest for the research of historical and cultural memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article aims to problematize the issues of memory and Transitional Justice from the context of the establishment of the Brazilian National Truth Commission - (CNV, in Portuguese). The disputes about what to remember, how to remember, and what to forget (or not to forget) can become very complex in times of political polarization. By problematizing the Brazilian case between 2008 and 2014, we seek to highlight how the institution path of the CNV dealt with legislative and empirical obstacles around memory, history, forgetting, and resentment. Methodologically, the research used primary sources (legislative and judicial documents, reports, opinions) and secondary sources (specialized literature on the subject). Using the descriptive method, we present the Brazilian transitional context and the course of the CNV to demonstrate how the tension between resentment and the right to memory and the right to truth were organized by the Commission. While the outcome of the CNV Report is relevant, the accountability of human rights violators in Brazil is neutralized by the justice system. The promise of a public policy on memory remains in oblivion controlled by political elites. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text is a reflection on the set of events of the "Constitutionalist Revolution" of 1932. The war movement was translated, before and during its occurrence, into sociopolitical disputes for the representation of memory. The winner in the trenches invested in proclaiming to the paulistas the separatist, conservative and oligarchic character. In its counterpart, a historiography of São Paulo memory, supported by official monuments, joined efforts, after the defeat in the dispute, in the production of another narrative, and the civic celebration on the 24th of July was enthroned in social memory as a landmark of resistance to an authoritarian and unconstitutional central power. Capital and labor participated, each in their own way, with their representations, political parties, such as the PRP, PD and PCB, as well as artists, press, sociologist and literary, among them Mário and Oswald de Andrade, with their collective and singular interpretations about the tensions and contradictions at that time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The project entitled "Linking voices for peace. Representations of the armed conflict in the Sumapaz region: Case Tibacuy - Pasca", is developed as a proposal that arises from the School of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities" of the UNAD. The life stories of the inhabitants of the Municipality of Tibacuy, related to the victimizing events that occurred during the armed conflict, such as forced displacement and homicide, express the collective representations constructed. Said contents are socialized in the academic scene of the Normal de Pasca, through the radio programs broadcast by the virtual Radio UNAD and there the students, starting from the episodes counted, construct collective versions of what happened in Tibacuy. Starting from a group exercise, it seeks to activate a space for reflection, discussion and appropriation in which an approach to one's own experience of the armed conflict is intended, which involves family events and / or associated social and political events. This allows updating the representations about the armed conflict as a localized collective experience. In this way, progress is made in the possibility of listening and the ability to understand and understand the other, supported by radio mediation, as a meeting point that opens the possibility of dialogue, rapprochement and the awakening of consciousness and awareness. historical memory. This is possible, in addition to the geographic proximity, because both Municipalities shared similar conflict situations. [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]

In this regard, the paper states that the official reports of memory are perceived as distant narrative devices by the local actors whose memory these reports seek to reflect. A tension is thus established between the local close memories that circulate within the communities themselves and the distant commemorative memory that is directed toward the external social and political space where the disputes for the national memory take place. The article is based on an extensive fieldwork carried out in the pile dwelling populations of the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, an area that was the epicenter of two massacres executed by right-wing paramilitary armies in 2000, within the context of the Colombian armed conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The historiography about the Spanish Transition to Democracy is one of the most prolific in terms of the number of recent works and publications. This article will offer an overview of the treatment that, specifically, the collective memory of the Transition has received the main interpretive approaches to it. Subsequently, a possible interpretative proposal will be offered from the introduction of the concept of nostalgias prestadas, to treat a historical process which memory and symbolic spaces has a great relevance and influence in the current history of Spain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the change and adaptation process of miners who became agricultural settlers on the coast of Hermosillo. All of them had been unemployed because of the closure of the copper mine in Pilares, Sonora, in 1949. The methodological perspective applied instruments of social and cultural history with concepts of memory studies. It is possible to identify a fractured identity through the broken projections for the future, forcing settlers to re-elaborate their life stories. The study involved work with orality, which resulted in some limitations that had to be solved with contrast of documentary and historiographic sources. The visibility of a community with a strong presence in the social imagination of Sonora defined the originality of the study, concluding further that there is a pilgrim cultural identity that was formed outside the mining space but with symbolic elements of it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents memorialistic narratives about childhood experiences, on the pathways between home and the educational institutions of the urban downtown of Florianopolis (SC), in the first half of the 20th century: the School Groups Lauro Müller, Dias Velho, Silveira de Souza and Arquidiocesano of São José. The memories of the "arts of doing" from childhood, captured through fifteen interviews, recorded in audio and image, are understood from Michel de Certeau's perspective, especially regarding the concepts of "practiced spaces" and of "tactics". Among the conclusions, it is evident that the memories flash from an intense process of interaction between interviewer and interviewee and that the erstwhile childhood, in the memories, it is a special agent that makes use of the tactics of its own margin to the social order of each epoch and historical context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article intends to analyze the cultural and political role of emotions according to the trajectory of Santa Catarina Derlei Catarina de Luca during the period when Brazil came under military rule. In this way, the importance of memory and its reports as fundamental sources for historical analysis, as well as, the way in which gender relations were part of this social context. In addition, it reflects on the "emotional turn" and how emotions such as fear, pain and love can influence the freedom and movement of bodies. As a documentary source, the book written by Derlei Catarina de Luca is used, which describes his trajectory as a militant during the period of the civil-military dictatorship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the understanding that soccer enables us to reflect upon issues related to identity, social life, and disputes within a certain society, this article aims to investigate the influence of sport on the socio-spatial configuration of Mariana, Minas Gerais - Brazil, through the rivalry between the two traditional clubs of the city: Marianense Soccer Club and Guarany Soccer Club. Considering the dynamics of communicative processes and social interactions, this work deals with oral narratives collected by means of interviews conducted with residents of the municipality who had experienced this rivalry strength, which peaked and declined in the twentieth century. The memories reveal that the dichotomy between Marianense and Guarany concerning private, public, and sportive spaces 1) generated geographic and symbolic movement in a city that was stagnated ever since the end of the gold cycle and, driven by soccer clubs, 2) developed new habits, relationships, and civilization aspects, revealing structural questions related to politics, ethnics, and social class. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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]

After 30 years of the end of the Chilean military dictatorship, since October 18, 2019, Chile has faced one of the most serious Human Rights crises in recent years. The massive social mobilizations that began that month have been responded to the Government with systematic Human Rights violations against protesters. In this context, I introduce the role of memory policies on the dictatorial past, in the construction of a cultural hegemony capable of promoting and consolidating a commitment to Human Rights, having as its fi rst task to avoid the reproduction and public projection of memories that vulnerate these fundamental rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper engages in a self-critical reflection on the limits and decolonial potential of the project advanced by the author, entitled 'grammars of listening'. In the first part, the author explores the theoretical context that frames said project, namely, the analysis of the epistemological and ethical challenges that result from the task of listening to testimonies when working on historical memory. This involves a philosophical inquiry into the concept of traumatic violence as a "colonizing" form of violence. The second part of the paper examines the extent to which the project on grammars of listening holds under the scope of a decolonial look, and proposes two possible strategies for a "decolonization of listening," namely, the invention of history and the resistance of memory. [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]

The objective of this article is to deal with memory in Colombia from the point of view of political discourse and public policies. This dual approach supposes the facing of the paradoxical construction of a narrative about the war, in a country where, until relatively recently, the existence of an armed conflict was denied, even more so, where there is no consensus regarding the nomenclature of the multiple violent processes that have been suffered through history. An analysis of the social construction of the memory processes is approached in order to compare them with political discourses and with the recent articulation in public policies of the present postconflict process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to examine the relevance of counter-information productions developed during the military dictatorship in Brazil by religious groups. The object is the journal Paz e Terra, by Editora Civilização Brasileira in the 1960s, as a unique initiative in the field of religious, ecumenical and political communication. In order to respond to the Research problem "what is the place of the journal Paz e Terra in the memory of religious media productions in Brazil?" the article refers its basis in studies on "memory supports" and "sites (realms) of memory" are based. The articulation between the narrative of the memory of Paz e Terra and the description of the content of the ten published issues, which form the methodology of the research employed, was made based on the collection of the magazine, in documentary research, in statements of characters involved, collected during the research project for a Master's Degree in Social Memory by the author, and in works about Editora Civilização Brasileira and its editor Ênio Silveira, about the Protestant leaders involved in the project and about the journal itself. This text seeks to contribute to the expansion of approaches to studies in media and religion in Brazil, broadening the focus of critical analysis centered on contemporary productions and applying the referential key of memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An armed conflict of six decades in Colombia forcibly displaced nearly eight million people, including some who were forced to leave the country. The signing of the peace agreement with the Farc-Ep guerrillas created institutions for transitional justice and the clarification of the truth in which historical memory is essential. Exiled civil society has also taken part in the reconstruction of the collective memory through narratives expressed in different places. This article analyzes from a theoretical framework of memory and through the reports of the CNMH and different actions from civil society, how the memory has been recited form exile in the post-agreement era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Documentation is a significant mechanism to prove one's identity. Palestinians, being robbed of this privilege to document their history, have taken upon other creative means to prove their existence. Being instruments of resistance, graphics and comics have a historical prominence in the Palestinian community. Building on this rich history of resistance through art, the paper contends that the modern graphic novel is used as a tool by the author to reclaim the Palestinian identity by drawing their rootedness in the region, thus resisting their effacement from public memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Journalism has always contributed to shape shared social memory. The front pages of newspapers fulfilled an important communicational function, helping to build our imaginary about events that we do not even witness. In the early days of the internet, they were transposed to websites as home pages. In contemporaneity, however, we have seen a drop in the penetration of printed newspapers and the emergence of new forms of navigation, through links, which can affect the way in which we remember the news. The purpose of this article is to analyze the articulation between memory and forgetfulness that are triggered by reading the front pages in their printed and digital media and the consequences of dematerialization for journalism. To achieve the objectives, in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 journalists who have already edited or still edited the front pages and home pages in leading newspapers in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In medieval poetry of the Spanish Jews, both sacred and profane, late nostalgia for a lost and saved by the tongue homeland. She is his firmer ground, which can restore from the wreck of a hostile situation the fullness of collective memory. In the case of tudelano poet Judah Halevi, whose wanderings took him to visit different courts, Zaragoza, Toledo, Cordoba, Sevilla, Granada, but without settling permanently in any, the exile experience led him to feel like axis of history among the nations, live with the hope of returning to a land identified with paradise. Because poetry involved herself in this double movement of expulsion and return out put than usual and back source, the only point that awakens the to the meaning of live. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to discuss and describe how disputes occurred between the healer Faustino Ribeiro Jr. and authorities in the city of Salvador-BA between the years 1903 and 1904. For that purpose, publications from newspapers of the time were used, the lawsuit filed against Faustino, in addition to an article published in Gazeta Médica da Bahia. It is discussed here, not only how much the modernizing and secularizing processes within particular national-nation formations would prevent religiosity, but also, how such processes would end up contributing, even if involuntarily, to the redefinition of magic and religion. Thus, it is explored how much in processes of accelerated modification of life forms, antinomies would be expressed between the consolidation of collective memories of biographical duration, and posthumous historical reconstruction, all within the complex interactions between differentially positioned agents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The work reviewed here offers an exploration and characterization around the theory of the demons and its present "reloaded" version. The theory was presented in the Prologue of the text Nunca Más (Never again), elaborated by the National Commission for the Disappearance of People (CONADEP, by its acronym in Spanish) in 1984, and became very important during the 80s as a central element for the social recomposition of the return of democracy, and started to be questioned as from the 90s. With it, the state and insurgent violence were equated in their responsibilities for unleashing terror, presenting the society as a victim of this abstract and depoliticising violence. Through its multiple paths, this work offers the opportunity to reformulate the analysis about the relationship between these types of violence in other scenarios of the region in order to think, especially, about the dictatorial processes of the second half of the 20th century and the consequences suffered in the present regarding the different ways in which the collective memory about political repression in the region was constructed. In this sense, the author dissects the reloaded version of the theory and shows how denial and the demonization of the past were revisited in order to stigmatise actors of the present, relegitimise the repressive violence of the state and the advancement of regressive social and economic policies that are currently deployed in the Argentinian territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the reading of The Book of Emma Reyes: A Memoir, by the Colombian artist Emma Reyes, it is possible to know the author's life story. She stands out in this article as a relevant figure in the context of literature written by women in Latin America. Thus, this paper aims to discuss the possible reading keys presented in Emma's set of letters, based on the theoretical background of authors such as Aleida Assmann (2011) and Paul Ricoeur (2007). Before starting the analysis and considering its aspects, some information about the emergence of this work will be presented, as well as the biographical data of the author, according to Diego Garzón's (2016) journalistic work, in order to establish more reflections from this study proposal. Finally, the reading keys presented are cultural memory and identity, spaces and voices that appear in the narrative through memoirs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reflects about two areas of action: anthropology as a discipline and memory as a theme of interest to the studies of anthropology in Chile. The objective is to understand anthropology as a discipline whose methodology and comprehensive and interpretive approach can contribute substantially to the field of memory studies of the recent past. It is proposed that the methodology and reflective uniqueness grants to the discipline with the ability to contribute to knowledge, understanding and reflection of processes and phenomena which do not constitute a closed and finished past, but constitute a lively past and present, and in consequence observable and necessary to examine and problematize. To do this the next itinerary will be pursued: a) areas and themes from the field of memory studies that could potentially be of interest to anthropological studies and b) tools and methodological strategies that can be contributed by the discipline. [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]

Human groups have multiple mnemonic devices and registration systems in order to facilitate subsequent access to something that has been discovered, produced and acquired. Condensing a part of the human experiences of collective construction, religion is an important laboratory for understanding the process of social construction of memory. Memory conservation always involves innovation strategies. The religious traditions of humanity bear witness to a long process of (re)constructing perspectives on the world (cosmic and social), acting on it and projecting the bridges to other "worlds". This essay explores the notion of memory, in a socio-anthropological perspective, to understand religion as a cultural phenomenon, considering several dimensions: propagation, distribution, durability, transmission. From the perspective of Maurice Halbwachs, this theoretical framework guides the study to a double problem: the place of religion as a memory of cultures; the memory process as the core of religious activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mia Couto states that "African culture is not a single one but a multicultural network in continuous construction" (COUTO, 2005, p. 79). The idea of a multiple and plural identity is related to the questions of tradition and roots of a people, with the need to "re-construct" rituals and beliefs, fundamental elements for the reconstruction of the identity of a country marked by war. The sixteen-year war with the desolation of the natural and human landscape did not provide a cultural context suitable for oral transmission. The need to rescue "the ancestral Mozambican imagery deeply rooted in orality (MARTINS, 2002), lost or forgotten, remains up-to-date and linked to the question of the definition of identity, of Mozambican cultural identity. Oral tradition helps to recycle and revive the collective memory and traditional culture of the Mozambican people, but orality alone is not enough to combat forgetfulness; it is necessary to write to reinforce and diversify the process of re-creating this tradition. Mia Couto contributes to the recovery of tradition with his stories, creating a space "between places", in which elements of modernity, through the bias of prosaic-fictional writing, are used to transform, update and invigorate the traditional cultural heritage and thus renew the process of building the collective identity of Mozambique. Through readings of Mia Couto's short narratives and novels, the intention is to explore how the author uses orality to re-construct the identity of the characters and consequent revitalization of collective cultural memory, analyzing selected texts in which identity and orality merged to portray the Mozambican identity. Reinventing or hearing forgotten voices is coloring and building the new Mozambican cultural identity, giving the anonymous people an opportunity to express themselves, to identify with and to give a life to a cultural project for a future that is always under construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Archives are a place of custody of the individual and collective memory and a gathering space of that image that the past imposes on the future. Archives become an arena in which certain historical struggles are fought over through the tasks of selections, interpretation, description and censorship of registered memories. Deciphering is a fundamental key to understand archive complex system. These problems are presented in the dramatic play by Samuel Beckett Krapp's Last Tape. It is possible to define Krapp as the perfect archivist model. In order to reach these conclusions, we will analyze the relationship between history and memory and later the traumatic forms of archive will be analyzed. [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]

Scientists' participation in foreign policy strategies fill very few pages in the studies of the international relations of non-hegemonic countries. This text analyses a case study of the science diplomacy of Serbia - a small non-hegemonic country without considerable resources - in the context of the culture of memory as a global challenge. First of all, certain concepts are introduced to interpret the relationship between science and diplomacy; second, the case is described and analysed and the mechanisms of articulation are presented that allow the plausible operability of science diplomacy as a shared space for the consolidation of foreign policy strategies; finally, an evaluation and conclusions are offered. [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]

The acts of armed violence can pour a new sense over the spaces where a community build its social identity. In Nueva Venecia, a small pile-dwelling village in Magdalena (Colombia), three different armed actors (the guerrilla, the right-wing paramilitaries and the Public Force) gathered the local people, at three different times, on the same social space: the main square. In the first meeting, people was warned, by the first one of the three groups, about the possibility of a slaughter that could happen there. In the second occasion, local people was both victim and witness of the way that the second one carried it on. In the third meeting, the third group offered excuses for what happened. The paper analyses the way in which these three acts determined three marks of the continuum of violence over the local nodal space of memory. The article is organized around the last act, when national Army and Police representatives organized a public ceremony of forgiveness because of the paramilitary massacre. The study of such a ceremony shows it as a stage where agents of confronting memories are trying to achieve social legitimacy rather than a true act of symbolic reparation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]