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This article analyzes the experience of childhood exile during the last Argentine dictatorship through two works by Laura Alcoba: "El azul de las abejas" (2014) and "La danza de la araña" (2018). These works allow for the analysis of the voice of the exiled woman and also that of her childhood, establishing a direct connection with Argentina's dictatorial past and the Southern Cone. The importance of representing childhood exile and how it is narrated after decades of silence through the learning of a foreign language in a distant country is highlighted. The text analyzes the use of autofiction in second-generation authors, relating it to the experience of being daughters of the disappeared during the dictatorship in Argentina. These authors use autofiction as a constant search for their origins and affiliations. The narrativization of the experience is presented as a link between testimonies and other discursive forms. Additionally, the "generational turn" is highlighted in which daughters reconfigure their own subjectivity through their narratives. On the other hand, the theme of exile and childhood is addressed in the works of Laura Alcoba, who narrates her experience as the daughter of Montoneros militants exiled in France. These works allow for reflection on exile as a form of "eradication of the subversive enemy" and the absence of exile narratives by women in the Western canon. The text analyzes the experience of childhood exile in two works by Laura Alcoba, "El azul" and "La danza". The importance of remnants from the protagonist's country of origin in her life is highlighted, such as her detained father's letters and her friend Amalia's stories. The narrator's overadaptation and agency in the midst of circumstances are mentioned. The impact of exile on identity and the construction of one's own memory is also addressed. The text discusses the experience of childhood exile in two works by Laura Alcoba. The concept of a "revolutionary family" is mentioned, referring to families whose ties are linked to political militancy. The communal life that occurred among the exiles and the importance of narration to shape and give meaning to the experience and recreate the past are highlighted. The displacement and "linguistic exile" that involves adapting to a new country and language are also mentioned. Finally, the importance of letters as objects that allow for the reconstruction of history and the presence of the absent is emphasized. The article analyzes the importance of letters as supports for memory and the material survival of exile. The possibility of configuring a "nomadic subjectivity" based on these remnants is highlighted, allowing for the delineation of new maps and cartographies of discontinuous times for surviving daughters. It is concluded that the works of the daughters emerge thanks to certain social and state political conditions that enable a listening and reception that did not exist before. These memorial narratives stand as another form of the political and contribute to the idea of collective memory. [Extracted from the article]

The article "Argentine Historiography. A Model to Assemble" is a review of the collective work of the same name, which revisits the history of historiography in Argentina and analyzes the forms of writing about Argentine history. The work examines the relationship between central history and provincial histories, as well as the professionalization of the historical discipline and its connection to sociopolitical debates. It also highlights a research project that addresses narratives centered on the Federal Capital and the expansion of post-dictatorship historical studies. The article analyzes the relationship between the production of historical knowledge and public policies of memory, as well as the tensions between officialization and professionalization. Additionally, it emphasizes the diversity of provincial and regional discourses in Argentine historiography and the importance of collective reflection on the historical task. [Extracted from the article]

The article analyzes the relationship between museums and communities in the region of Argentine Patagonia. It highlights that this relationship has been the subject of research and reflection in Argentina, generating a multidisciplinary bibliographic corpus. The text is organized into two sections that address specific cases and theoretical reflections on the topic. Specific cases such as the Regional Pampeano Museum and the Quinto Sol Museum are analyzed, as well as the creation of museums and related public policies. The text emphasizes the importance of understanding the museum-community dynamics and promoting active community participation in the collective interpretation of the past. [Extracted from the article]

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The article presents an interview with the collective "Basta Biblioclastia" from Argentina, which emerged in 2020 with the aim of studying, documenting, and raising awareness about actions against biblioclasm. The dimensions of biblioclasm, its relationship with collective memory and human rights, as well as the role of information professionals in guaranteeing these rights are discussed. The collective has also created a Basta Biblioclastia Yearbook and is working on future projects to combat biblioclasm and promote equitable access to knowledge. [Extracted from the article]

Javier Milei won the Argentine presidential elections on 19 November 2023 to the astonishment of his detractors in Argentina and a large part of international public opinion. His incendiary discourse against la casta and his groundbreaking promises catapulted him to stardom on television, from where he began to articulate an electoral platform around a political identity with no roots in Argentina: libertarianism. However, in order to win the final victory, Milei had to articulate this new identity with the sedimentation of the previous period, presided over by the dichotomy generated around la grieta. From the perspective of Political Theory, we will question the specificity of this articulation and its particular use of antagonisms in order to understand the reasons for its success. We will explore the challenges and risks posed by Milei’s mandate in terms of civil rights and liberties, democratic memory policies and a whole series of elements that seemed to form part of an unquestionable political and social consensus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Science fiction film production has grown in Argentina since the late twentieth century. While in North America the genre has been concerned with the future, postdictatorship Argentinean science fiction investigates a past riddled with mysteries and memories, presenting a cautionary tale of what will happen if the country's history falls into oblivion. Through analysis of postdictatorship films, I show how Argentinean science fiction's deep historical ties and its use of detecting qualities associated with crime thrillers help to unravel the traumatic mysteries of the past. This article challenges characterizations of genres as ahistorical, showing that different production contexts yield shifts and disruptions in addition to continuities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Created in 1941, the Junta de la Victoria (Victory Board, JV) was a Popular Front movement that supplied the Allies. It attracted about 45,000 diverse women throughout Argentina. The JV challenged local fascism by modelling a genuine democracy based on pluralism, intersectional solidarity, freedom, and women's political incorporation. Members created ties across social differences. The JV's promotion of multiculturalism facilitated a shift from the Argentine ideal of a melting pot to one of ethnic diversity. Its president, Ana Rosa Schlieper, seemed an unlikely resistance fighter. Initially her main identities were those of wife, philanthropist, and upper-class socialite. Her whiteness, beauty, and charm enhanced her prestige. In the mid-1930s Schlieper added antifascist and feminist to her intertwined identities. Seizing power in 1943, military officers suppressed the JV, seeing it as a communist organisation. Some Argentine and U.S. officials accused Schlieper of being a communist dupe, although she was loyal to the democratic centrist Radical party. Under populist president Juan Perón (1946-1955), her class and political identities became liabilities. Peronist hegemony and fear of being identified with an anti-Peronist and leftist group obliterated the public memory of Schlieper and the JV until recently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Since the Spanish colonization of Latin America at the end of the 15th century, indigenous people have been displaced from their lands in an extremely violent manner. Currently, people who belong to indigenous communities in Argentina are subject to prejudice and discrimination, because they are perceived as a threat to Argentine social identity. The aim of this article is to analyze theoretically, from a psycho-environmental perspective, those factors that influence the development of blatant and subtle prejudice towards indigenous people in Argentina. For this, the sense of place that indigenous people give to their lands and how it is related to the attachment that they have towards their territory will be considered. In addition, it is argued that these factors are fundamental for the construction of the social identity of indigenous people. Finally, it is proposed that designing and implementing intervention programs that include a psychoenvironmental perspective based on historical memory and promotion of social peace can help reduce prejudice and discrimination towards indigenous people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This contribution sets out to investigate the inclusion of childhood experiences of state violence in museum narratives displayed in former clandestine detention centres set up by the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983) and later reconverted into memorial spaces and museums. In a comparative analysis, we examine three different curatorial approaches to this topic, discussing the strategies deployed to represent these experiences: the permanent exhibition at the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory, the "virtual museum" Proyecto Tesoros [Treasures Project], by Colectivo de hijos (Cdh) [Collective of Children], and a temporary exhibition entitled ¿Aquí hubo niñ@s? [Were There Children Here?] at the former Olimpo. We furthermore discuss a new perspective that has not so far been acknowledged in museological exhibition practice in post-dictatorship Argentina: the affective response by visitors to the representation of children as survivors of the dictatorship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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From the last decades of the 19th century and during the first half of the following century, the feminization of the primary teaching profession was consolidated as a generalized phenomenon in several Latin American countries. This article comparatively analyzes this process, identifying the material and symbolic factors that made possible the growing number of women primary teachers in in Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador and Chile. Methodologically, this work is based on the analysis of documents and sources of various kinds, such as censuses and statistical compilations, ministerial reports, and memories of the ministries of public instruction. The comparative study of these sources allowed us to identify two main trajectories of feminization of the teaching profession: on the one hand, an early feminization process, related to the expansion of national education systems and the consolidation of the so-called Estado Docente. On the other hand, a delayed process of feminization was recognized. This was linked to more decentralized school systems and with greater influence from the Catholic Church. While the first trajectory is represented by the cases of Argentina, Uruguay and Chile; the second trajectory includes the experiences of Peru and Ecuador. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: After the traumatic experience of the last dictatorship in Argentina (19761983), from the recovery of democracy to the present, there have been numerous experiences of symbolic reparation in relatives of the disappeared. Some have been promoted and managed by the State, others by human rights organizations, institutions, or cultural groups, such as our case study: "El Rancho Urutaú" Space for Culture and Memory in the city of Ensenada (Province of Buenos Aires) in which families are invited to participate in the construction and placement of murals that represent their loved ones. Main goal: Analyze the participation, reception and effects of these collective memory practices in the family environment. Method and technique: Starting from a qualitative analysis and a theoretical perspective based on Memory Studies, we focus on the analysis of traumatic memories and grief work with the contributions of psychoanalysis. For this, we resort to participant and non-participant observation and semi-structured interviews approached with the Oral History methodology. Results: The inquiry shows that these reparatory practices enable families to approach different ways of dealing with the traumatic experience through the sharing and building memories collectively. Conclusions: The memory practices that act as symbolic reparation collaborate in the work of grief, making possible the socialization of the events as rituals, helping to rebuild ties and regenerate the social fabric dismantled by the dictatorship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How are risk orientations shaped in the sphere of work beyond proximate structuring institutions? In the absence of clear organizational imperatives or institutional supports, what provides the broad contours of a workable imaginary? Using interview data from small business owners in Argentina, I show that the form and content of generational memories of crisis influence the uptake of entrepreneurial discourse and apprehensions of economic risk. Older business owners draw upon their collective memory of the 2001–2002 economic crisis to engage in a process of adversarial personification that posits the macroeconomy as a cunning enemy and positions them as strategic actors. Conversely, younger small business owners—who did not live through these economic shocks as small business owners—draw upon the entrepreneurial ethos that they collectively cultivate through generational communities of practice to engage in a process of empowered distancing that minimizes the severity of economic crisis. Using Kenneth Burke's theoretical schema to identify grammars of motive and action, I show how older business owners deploy a generationally shared narrative to develop a conceptualization of economic agency that does not derive from the entrepreneurial ethos. By arguing that collective memory generates economic subject positions, this article demonstrates that the "use value" of collective memory lies not only in its uptake by politicians, journalists, and activists engaged in political projects, but also in the everyday ways that economic actors use narratives about the past to develop strategies of risk management in the present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article considers organizational solidarity in practice —modes of organizing rooted in solidarity, relationality, coalition-building, and difference. It does so by studying two Latin American illustrative cases: Bolivia's campesino-indígena movements coalescing traditional practices and urban-neighborhood experiences in order to self- organize socio-political spaces ; and Argentina's worker-led empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores (worker-recuperated enterprises), where workers have been drawing on working-class self-activity to convert companies to cooperatives and self-manage spaces of production. Via a diverse economies approach, the article begins to inventory, describe, and provisionally theorize the recuperations, rearticulations, and creative proposals for organizing social, cultural, and economic life being forged by these diverse groups. The article ultimately unravels four broad commonalities threading and shaping each case: the neoliberal political economic context, collective memory, horizontal organizing, and coalitional possibilities. Though emerging in different national conjunctures and histories, what these two cases bring to the surface are the resistive and creative dimensions of each organizing experience. They are rooted in deeply relational coalitions linked via solidarity in difference, while drawing on collective memories of the past to recreate and reenvision the present and the future beyond the legacies of colonial histories and capitalist-centered actualities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to show the complex relationship between the memory policies and some re-reading from sex-dissident and indigenous women's activisms in Argentina. First, we present the meaning of memory in the Argentinian context, considering the historical struggles of the human rights movements and how their demands became state policies during the Kirchnerist government. Second, from Julieta Kirkwood's feminist knots notion, we analyze the refutation by certain activisms on "the" memory -- in singular--: regarding sex-dissident activism, we analyze the discourse of Ivanna Aguilera and Eugenio Talbot Wright. In the case of indigenous women activism, we examine the discourse of Moira Millán. Based on the analysis of the "30.400 disappeared people" in the first case, and the "double genocide" in the second case, we present how both claims assert time and space dimensions that invite to re-think memory. In this sense, we indicate that these reading against the grain can be understood as knots that, as living movements and new meaning productions, can expand the imagination about the political subjects in the political community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The remembrance of war and commemoration practices shape the collective memories of society and, as such, war has been one of the most productive topics in memory studies. Commemorating past wars is one of the ways of constructing a commonly shared memory that would enhance group cohesion and shape collective identity. This paper will provide three examples of sites of memory in reference to the Malvinas/Falklands War, one from each side of the dispute-- United Kingdom, Argentina and a third example from the actual territory of the Falkland Islands to illustrate how war memorials are an expression of patriotism, built to frame the deaths in terms of a national narrative of glorious sacrifice for cause and nation. Therefore, war commemoration recalls past experiences of suffering, but at the same time, of resistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this issue of the Electronic Journal of Political Psychology, a dossier is presented that compiles the complete works submitted to the 7th National Meeting of Community Psychology. The contributions address various topics related to Community Social Psychology in Argentina, such as community upbringing, human rights, integral health, human trafficking, mental health, art and community psychology, among others. These works seek to offer an alternative perspective to neoliberal policies and promote resistance and the fight against oppression and exploitation. [Extracted from the article]

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The television series, Vientos de Agua (2006), directed by Juan José Campanella, looks at the issue of Spanish-Argentine emigration, within the time frame 1934-2006. On the one hand, Vientos de agua can be considered a melodrama, since it uses the recurring strategies of a genre that privileges attention to the affective sphere of the characters — family, loves, friends, and encourages a moral reading of the conflicts. On the other, a historical context is evoked and some social transformations are noted, which also allows a reading of this fictional series as a means of representing collective memory. Finally, given that the adventures of the characters offer us almost all the recurring motifs of exile — the myth of the promised land, the longing for the lost paradise, the anguish of the boat trip, the crossing of borders, the loss of ties with the communities of origin and the difficulties in finding new host communities— including returning home, I consider it appropriate to review whether the concepts of reflective nostalgia and post-memory are productive for the analysis of the series and its representation of individual and collective identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Se presenta un Editorial a la revista que discute la memoria de los hijos de sobrevivientes desaparecidos con un enfoque en las experiencias traumáticas y la memoria histórica de los niños de Chile y Argentina. El artículo también analiza el uso de medidas de amnistía en la estabilización y gestión de conflictos, el derecho internacional y los acuerdos de reconciliación para la estabilidad de los ciudadanos en Atenas.

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After a brief introduction on memory, omission and subsequent forgetfulness, the question of teaching the history of library services in Argentina from the middle of the last century arises, when it was attempted to implement the Anglo-American model as the only possible and the best, and pre-existing models were ignored: traditional and innovative. Interpretations based on political, social and cultural factors are proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The FIFA World Cup football tournament is one of the most widely watched sporting events in the world. Particularly, the Argentina national football team has appeared in five World-Cup finals and support for this team has been a long-standing tradition in this country. In the present study, we asked whether the FIFA World Cup constructs a significant collective memory and to what extent this informal memory is similar to collective memories acquired in more formal settings. An online memory task was conducted asking a large group of Argentinian adults (N=407) which country was the winner, the runner-up, and the host of each tournament from 1930 to 2014. In addition, participants were asked to rank the emotional content and the response confidence of each tournament. Finally, participants reported a number of keywords associated with each tournament, to measure memory detail. Our results reveal the existence of a robust collective memory for the World Cup events, showing a high degree of memory accuracy and detail with regard to the history of the tournaments. Furthermore, an independent replication study (N=124) confirmed our findings. More specifically, we found evidence for general principles of individual memories in FIFA World-Cup informal collective memories. These results suggest that informal collective memories share common attributes with more formal collective memories such as those found in presidents or wars. Thus, collective memory properties may be independent of the conditions under which their acquisition occurs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Relatives of the disappeared during the last civic–military dictatorship in Argentina who were able to recover the human remains of their family members through the work of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense , or EAAF), painted a mural in March 2014. 'The Disappeared Are Appearing' is a collaborative and community-based mural project designed, rendered and completed by the relatives of victims of state terror in Argentina. The participating family members of the disappeared had recovered the human remains of their beloved relatives through the tenacious and constant work of the EAAF, a nongovernmental, not-for-profit, scientific organization. It was established in 1984 to investigate the cases of at least 9,000 disappeared people in Argentina under the military government that ruled from 1976 to 1983. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we present the archaeological training that archaeology undergraduate students of the University of Buenos Aires performed at a former illegal detention centre from the Argentinian dictatorship, the Espacio para la Memoria y la Promoción de los DDHH ex-Centro Clandestino de Detención Tortura y Exterminio 'Club Atlético' (Memorial Site for the Advancement of Human Rights, Former Illegal Detention, Torture and Extermination Centre 'Athletic Club') between 2016 and 2019. After contextualizing the development of archaeology teaching at the university level in Buenos Aires and the archaeological research at an illegal detention centre from the dictatorship, we present the results of this training to show how approaching archaeological topics in a way that is historically, politically, and physically closer to the students helped them to incorporate fieldwork and lab issues in a committed and meaningful way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, I read Beatriz Sarlo's Tiempo pasado: Cultura de la memoria y giro subjetivo. Una discusión in the context of new scholarship in cultural memory studies, that proposes its transgenerational perdurability both at the a social and the collective level. I propose that Sarlo criticizes the personal voice of the "subjective turn" by deploying her own predilections, and therefore interrupting the discourses she purports to analyze. Sarlo's critique of the subjective turn is therefore carried out within her own subjectivity, inviting a question that echoes her own: what is the place of the first person singular in the narration of the recent past? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article calls for consideration of underground elements that have been typically overlooked or unseen in debates about the nation and banal nationalism. The materialities and (re)presentation of elements such as earth, sand and rock have the capacity to be affective, contentious, to embody intimate memories of conflict and to reinforce national territorial aspirations. These subterranean elements have been 'nationalised', bathymetrically mapped and deployed by Argentina to make claims over territories in the South Atlantic, including the Falklands/Malvinas. Rather than re-examining these technical procedures undertaken by the state and analysing what they mean for the geopolitics of the South Atlantic, this article explores how the subterranean is manifest in everyday reproductions of nationalism and national memory in Argentina. It presents insights from research undertaken in a range of different environments in Argentina, encompassing museums, veterans' centres and public monuments, to demonstrate how the presence of the elemental in the everyday can reinforce and also disrupt banal (territorial) nationalism. Furthermore it argues for conceptualisation of the elemental as part of a relational network that links matter, national citizenries and territories together. The conclusion posits that the subterranean elements and their (re)presentation are essential to understanding the materialisation of banal nationalism as part of the everyday reproduction and rejection of claims to 'national' territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]