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When memory becomes heritage: Experiences from Santiago, Chile
Author(s) -
María Chiara Bianchini
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
culture and history digital journal
Language(s) - Spanish
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.103
H-Index - 5
ISSN - 2253-797X
DOI - 10.3989/chdj.2014.023
Subject(s) - politics , dictatorship , democracy , state (computer science) , capital (architecture) , historical memory , political science , capital city , history , sociology , geography , humanities , law , archaeology , art , economic geography , algorithm , computer science
This article explores the relationships between memory politics and urban heritage in the construction of a twenty-first century democratic society. It focuses on the case of Chile and concentrates on three examples of public buildings in the capital city, Santiago. Given what can be considered a difficult heritage –linked to the recent experience of dictatorship and state sponsored violence– these buildings have been in recent years objects of heritage politics, directed to address a public memory related to those events. Based on these case studies, the article critically discusses the materialization of the dominant human rights discourse in the current memory politics affecting Santiago’s urban heritage. Este artículo aborda las relaciones entre políticas de memoria y patrimonio urbano en el proceso de construcción de una sociedad democrática del siglo XXI. El análisis se centra en el caso de Chile y presenta tres ejemplos de edificios públicos de la capital, Santiago. Los tres sitios representan lo que puede considerarse un patrimonio difícil –vinculado a una reciente experiencia de dictadura y violencia de Estado– y, por esta razón, han sido objeto, en años recientes, de políticas patrimoniales dirigidas a gestionar la memoria pública de esos eventos. A través de estos casos, el artículo analiza críticamente la materialización del discurso dominante de los derechos humanos en las actuales políticas de memoria que afectan al patrimonio urbano de Santiago

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