Los rostros de la memoria. El fenómeno memorialista en el mundo actual y sus usos políticos
Journal: Historia y Política Ideas Procesos y Movimientos Sociales
Year: 2016

Since the decade of 1990 there has been an unprecedented proliferation of memorials around the world: monuments, shrines, museums, different spaces for memory – including virtual places and archives –, and commemorative dates. It is a global phenomenon that can be considered as characteristic of our time. Most of these memorials are related to traumatic events, especially genocides, and they are offered as a means of overcoming the past and fighting against oblivion. Even, they are used to tackl