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El holocausto español

abril 30, 2011

Durante la Guerra Civil española, cerca de 200.000 hombres y mujeres fueron asesinados lejos del frente, ejecutados extrajudicialmente o tras precarios procesos legales, y al menos 300.000 personas perdieron la vida en los frentes de batalla. Un número desconocido fueron víctimas de los bombardeos y los éxodos que siguieron a la ocupación del territorio por […]

Where Memory Dwells. Culture and State Violence in Chile

marzo 8, 2011

By Macarena Gómez-Barris The 1973 military coup in Chile deposed the democratically elected Salvador Allende and installed a dictatorship that terrorized the country for almost twenty years. Subsequent efforts to come to terms with the national trauma have resulted in an outpouring of fiction, art, film, and drama. In this ethnography, Macarena Gómez-Barris examines cultural […]

The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood

enero 28, 2011

By Didier Fassin, Richard Rechtman, Rachel Gomme Today we are accustomed to psychiatrists being summoned to scenes of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war, and other tragic events to care for the psychic trauma of victims–yet it has not always been so. The very idea of psychic trauma came into being only at the end […]

Unearthing Franco’s Legacy: Mass Graves and the Recovery of Historical Memory in Spain

diciembre 30, 2010

Unearthing Franco’s Legacy: Mass Graves and the Recovery of Historical Memory in Spain addresses the political, cultural, and historical debate that has ensued in Spain as a result of the recent discovery and exhumation of mass graves dating from the years during and after the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). The victor, General Francisco Franco, ruled as […]

La interminable ausencia.

noviembre 24, 2010

Como libro del mes de diciembre quiero proponer «La interminable ausencia. Estudio médico, psicológico y político de la desaparición forzada de personas» de Paz Rojas Baeza, 2009, Santiago de Chile, LOM Ediciones. Se trata de un estudio sobre las consecuencias sociales a largo plazo de la desaparición forzada de personas como forma de represión política. […]