Recovery Of Historical Memory Research Articles

Los secretos de la memoria: Guerra Civil, franquismo y fuentes orales en Almería

This article examines the particular experience of the people of Almeria during the civil war and the post-war period, through the analysis of more than fifty oral testimonies. These have been collated in the course of two official research projects concerning the recovery of historical memory in Andalusia, and are the product of interviews carried out in this province. This memory, which merges with history, and has been much in the news in recent months, comes mainly from men and women from rural backgrounds, who, through the thread of their narrative, provide us with the keys to different individual experiences and a cosmogony of our collective past.

L'oubli de l'anarchisme au Brésil : la problématique de la (re) construction de l'identité ouvrière

Joey Alves de Seixas, Forgetting Anarchism in Brazil. The problematic of the (Re) Construction of Working-class Identity ; In the 1920s, the Brazilian labor movement was heavily influenced by anarchism and revolutionary syndicalism. In contrast, working-class identity today is characterized by images of apathy and weakness. These negative images, which are emotionally charged, are conditioned by the loss of memory concerning the earlier period of working-class history. In effect, the reconstruction of working-class identity is in great part dependent upon the recovery of historical memory.