Abstract

PALACIOS, Cecilia  and  RODRIGUEZ, Anabella. What Memories for Buenos Aires? A Comparative Analysis of the Cases of the Cro-Magnon Sanctuary and the Space for Memory and the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights. Estud. demogr. urbanos [online]. 2013, vol.28, n.2, pp.323-341. ISSN 2448-6515.

The city of Buenos Aires is covered with several territorial markers (monuments, memorials, popular altars, etc.) recalling conflictive events and political-social processes in recent history that embody the various memories of its citizens. On the basis of emblematic cases in the Space for Memory (ex ESMA) and the Cro-Magnon Sanctuary, we explored how these places of memory are inserted in the city’s structure, in quite dissimilar locations and functions that nevertheless identify them as icons of memory and commemoration. We explore the different ways in which memory can be territorialized and even institutionalized in a specific space.

Keywords : places of memory; Cro-Magnon Sanctuary; space for memory; institutionalization of memory.

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