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Publication Date
12-2025
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Citizens of Memory explores efforts at recollection in post-dictatorship Argentina and the hoped-for futures they set in motion. The sites, images, narratives, and practices it analyzes address the dark years of state repression (1976-1983) while engaging ongoing debates about how this traumatic past should be transmitted to future generations. This insightful study approaches cultural recall via two theoretical principles—the first understands memory as a social construct that is as much about the past as it is of the present, and the second observes that what distinguishes memory from history is affect. Understanding recollection and storytelling as practices that can help constitute communities of belonging, Tandeciarz suggests that by inciting deep reflection and an active engagement with the legacies of state violence, interventions like those studied here may advance transitional justice and contribute to the construction of less violent futures.
Keywords
Mural de la Memoria, Parque de la Memoria, Carteles de la Memoria, ESMA, Atlético excavation site, Club Atlético, Juan Gelman, Si dulcemente, Mnemonic imagination, Elizabeth Jelin, Escuela Superior de Mecánica de la Armada, Memory Park, Argentine photography, Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, Roland Barthes, Jill Bennett, Empathic vision, Marcelo Brodsky, Buena memoria, Lucila Quieto, Arqueologia de la ausencia 1999–2001, Natalia Calabrese, El presente del pasado, Papá Ivan, Los rubios, Carlos Menem, Tomá Eloy Martínez, Purgatorio, Provincial Commission for Memory, Comisión Provincial por la Memoria, State terrorism, Politics of forgetting, Imagined community, Asamblea Popular Plaza Dorrego, 1976 Argentine Coup, Urban prehistory, University of Buenos Aires, Aquí viven genocidas, Memoria, Verdad, Justicia, Ludmila da Silva Catela, Sites of mourning, Studium, Punctum, Transitional justice, Recordatorios, Imágenes robadas, Imágenes recuperadas, La exposición en el Claustro, H.I.J.O.S., Percepticide, Two Demon Theory, Nicolás Casullo, María Inés Roqué, Marta Sierra, INCAA, Guerilla violence, Tomás Martínez, Emilia Dupuy, Memory knots, Generative memory, Chapadmalal, Jóvenes y Memoria, Andar Agencia, Gonzalo Aguilar, Eduardo Galeano, Nicolás Prividera, Affect theory, Roberto Cipriano García, Albertina Carri, Roberto Carri, Gerardo Doll’Oro, Espacio Memoria y Derechos Humanos, Cristina de Kirchner, GACINTA, Néstor Kirchner, Madres de Plaza de Mayo, Peronism, Mary Ellis, Nelly Richard, Sandra Raggio, Emily Keightley, Diana Taylor, Steve Stern, Hugo Vezzetti
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Copyright © 2026 Bucknell University Press [paperback] Reprinted from the English Language edition of Citizens of Memory by Silvia R. Tandeciarz and originally published by Bucknell University Press. Copyright © 2017 by the author. Reprinted into and published in the English language by arrangement with Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying, reprinting, or on any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.
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eng
ISBN
9781684485833