Reconstruction Of Historical Memory Research Articles

Institucionalización de la información archivística sobre violaciones a los derechos humanos del Uruguay: revisión y perspectivas actuales para su acceso

In twenty-first century Uruguay, there are several studies related to the treatment of documents and information related to human rights violations, which occurred in the period of illegitimate action and State terrorism during the period 1968 and 1985. From the information science, issues related to public policies and cultural management institutions are problematized. The general objective of this work has to carry out an approach to cultural mediation developed in information units referring to human rights violations in Uruguay. Concepts are reviewed in an articulated way between culture, heritage and information units, in the context of cultural and memory policies. It introduces a characterization of the institutionalization of human rights as a cultural agent and its role in the democratization of knowledge preserved in heritage information units. Finally, aspects of the social function of access, cultural diffusion, and usability of information, acquired by the National Institution of Human Rights and the Ombudsman’s Office, are described. These, aimed at the reconstruction of historical memory, guarantee the rights to information, truth, justice, reparation, and non-repetition.

‘위안부’ 문제의 세계시민주의적 접근

This study aims to analyze the ‘comfort women’ researches conducted in Korea after the 2015 Korea-Japan ‘Comfort Women’ Agreement, thinking that the Agreement served as important momentum to trigger an increase in ‘comfort women’ research in Korean society. ‘Comfort women’ researches in Korea were classified largely into the three following subject areas: First, the comfort women issue as a Korea-Japan political, diplomatic conflict. Second, the comfort women issue as a reconstruction of historical memory. Third, the comfort women issue as a social practice. Then the challenges and directions for ‘comfort women’ research were presented as follows. First, oral history about the testimony of victims should be studied. Second, ‘comfort women’ discourse, which reproduces confrontation between countries should be overcome. Third, discussion on political responsibility is required in comfort women issue. To get closer to solving ‘comfort women’ issue, further studies on political responsibility of community that tolerated structural injustice and epistemic violence as well as judicial and moral responsibility for direct violence such as war crime, cruel treatment, and violation of women’s rights are also required.

El experimento democrático

This text sets out to examine the dilemma of the 2021 second round of elections in terms of a tragic conflict. Both electoral options pose authoritarian political proposals that violate the principles and practices of liberal democracy. As Polybius warned, the corruption of democracy leads to the oclocracy, a political figure that dissolves all forms of institutionality that produces the tyranny of the crowd. The only way to face this danger lies in the recovery of civic ethics, as well as the reconstruction of historical memory.

El experimento democrático

This text sets out to examine the dilemma of the 2021 second round of elections in terms of a tragic conflict. Both electoral options pose authoritarian political proposals that violate the principles and practices of liberal democracy. As Polybius warned, the corruption of democracy leads to the oclocracy, a political figure that dissolves all forms of institutionality that produces the tyranny of the crowd. The only way to face this danger lies in the recovery of civic ethics, as well as the reconstruction of historical memory.

PSICODRAMA Y TEATRO ESPONTÁNEO:EXPERIENCIAS INNOVADORAS PARA EL ÁMBITO COMUNITARIO EN CUBA

This work tells innovative experiences of implementation of psychodrama and spontaneous theatre for the community environment in Cuba. The three experiences were developed in “El Canal”, an alternative space for the promotion of Psychodrama and Spontaneous Theatre/Playback. The modalities implemented were: public psychodrama as a device to enhance citizen participation;psychodrama for the construction and reconstruction of historical memory; and the spontaneous community theatre to promote an intergenerational meeting, with the direction of Julia Motta; Úrsula Hauser; Ana Ara and Bea Huber, respectively. The modalities used are based and described, highlighting their potential to be used for different purposes within some of the essential tasks that work in community settings demands.

Los mecanismos de la interpretación: la eficacia de la ficción en la reconstrucción de la memoria a propósito de Los girasoles ciegos

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the important role that fiction can play in the reconstruction of historical memory. We start from some concepts proposed by phenomenology, and those wisely used by the literary pragmatics and aesthetics of reception, in order to explain the effect that fiction has on the reader regardless of contents or themes. The choice of Los girasoles ciegos is to illustrate the effectiveness of fictional stories in the reconstruction of historical memory through the use of four stories present suitable formal features. These stories allow the reader to interpret the text as own experience.

Espacios y memoria del mal: en torno a La iniquidad de Alexis Ravelo

La noche de piedra (2007) and Los días de Mercurio (2010) are, until today, the two novels published of the trilogy La Iniquidad by Alexis Ravelo. They present two different stories and settings in the line of hard boiled and noir and in the best tradition of the Spanish thriller from the 70s and 80s, whose social and philosophical dimensions are recovered through an interesting treatment of the space and the reconstruction of historical memory. Ravelo reformulates the genre with narrative techniques typical of postmodernism. His writing is close to the neopolicial genre in our cultural sphere and moves away from the new crime novel that succeeds in the publishing market.

Genocide, and its Definition as the "Partial Elimination of a National Group"

This paper is primarily about the crimes committed by Argentina’s last military dictatorship and whether these deserve the legal qualification of crimes against humanity or “genocide.” This question has consequences which go beyond the field of law and affect society and collective psychology through the reconstruction of historical memory. From this perspective, this paper argues that the definition of Genocide set forth in international law is directly applicable in Argentine national law. It also examines the different problems with the use of this term. Finally, it aims to reconstruct the figure of Genocide from the original interpretation of the works of Raphael Lemkin, and establish the “national” group as the superordinate term and ‘ethnic’, ‘racial’ and ‘religious’ groups as cohyponyms, where “national” group includes and goes beyond the other three groups, and authorizes the inclusion of groups not explicitly covered by the 1948 Convention.

“Родина” о Родине: Размышления собкора

SUMMARY: Alexander Filiushkin utilizes his experience as a correspondent of the popular historical journal Rodina to explore the past and present of the publication. The article looks into the pre-revolutionary period of the journal’s existence (1879–1917) and stresses the apolitical, family-oriented, patriotic, and conservative nature of the publication, which targeted urban lower middle classes. In 1989, during perestroika, the authorities reestablished Rodina as one of the new instruments of the ideological control of the Communist Party, without claiming continuity with the pre-revolutionary publication. The journal set as its task the reconstruction of historical memory at the time of a profound crisis of history and memory. This orientation clashed with the growing wave of criticism of the Soviet world: on the pages of Rodina , a Communist Party journal, the USSR was termed “empire.” As the Soviet Union disintegrated and the journal became an organ of the Russian Supreme Soviet, it sought to publish materials on the reconciliation of a divided country. After the break-up of the USSR, Rodina became the most important popular publication with a historical focus. To respond to the growing discontent and find an integrating narrative, the editors attempted to focus thematic issues on Russian national identity, the problem of empire, and the problem of monarchy. The journal thus assumed the task of translating self-descriptive narratives of various layers of Russian society. In the following years, an attempt to turn Rodina into a more entertaining mass edition failed, and Rodina has remained a journal too intellectual for mass audiences and too popular for academic ones.