Abstract:
The XX century authoritarian experiences were marked by the intensive use of violence in the persecution of their opponents and/or “unwanted” social groups by the dictatorship, as well as the attempt of the implementation of a new narrative to the country. In order to reach its goals, characters, events and sites were reframed. This dossier compiles articles that analyze transformations of the public and private sites and their new functions and use forms. Therefore, the articles here represented show the concept range of the “Sites of Memory” that are not restricted to the ones associated to the practice of violence and torture performed by the dictatorship, they also included sites that were not so well explored by historiography and they highlight the disputes of memory and the political and social clash involved in the identification and recuperation of these sites in the democratic period and in the political use of the past.
Keywords:
Dictatorship; Sites of memory and conscience; Latin America