TY - JOUR
T1 - Experience and materiality at places of collective memory in Chile
AU - Martínez, Marisela Montenegro
AU - Shafir, Isabel Piper
AU - Droguett, Roberto Fernández
AU - Galeas, Mauricio Sepúlveda
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - The monuments and places of memory built in Chile to remember the human rights violations that occurred during the military dictatorship (1973-1990) contribute to the construction of hegemonic versions of these events. which have the effect of producing a "truth" about the facts. This article discusses the results of a research conducted at Santiago de Chile and shows how visitors of these places of memory relate to the space and interpret its materiality as a "proof of truth". The analysis was based on the notion of experience, understood as a product arising in the assembly of bodies, objects, discourses and practices that are update in the interaction between visitors and memory places.
AB - The monuments and places of memory built in Chile to remember the human rights violations that occurred during the military dictatorship (1973-1990) contribute to the construction of hegemonic versions of these events. which have the effect of producing a "truth" about the facts. This article discusses the results of a research conducted at Santiago de Chile and shows how visitors of these places of memory relate to the space and interpret its materiality as a "proof of truth". The analysis was based on the notion of experience, understood as a product arising in the assembly of bodies, objects, discourses and practices that are update in the interaction between visitors and memory places.
KW - Experience
KW - Human rights
KW - Semiotic-material assemblage
KW - Theaters of memory
U2 - https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.up14-5.emlm
DO - https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.up14-5.emlm
M3 - Article
VL - 14
SP - 1723
EP - 1734
JO - Universitas Psychologica
JF - Universitas Psychologica
SN - 1657-9267
IS - 5
ER -