The Memory of State Terrorism in the Southern Cone

VIKKI BELL Professor in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. EMILIO CRENZEL Professor of Sociology at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. GABRIELA FRIED AMILIVIA Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology at California State University, USA. GIUSEPPE LANA Artistic director of the exhibitions gallery BOCS (Box Of Contemporary Space). MICHAEL J. LAZZARA Assoc. Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of California, USA ELIZABETH LIRA Psychologist and Director of the Center of Ethics at the Alberto Hurtado University in Santiago, Chile. VALENTINA SALVI Researcher at the National Council of Scientific Research (CONICET) and the Research Institute 'Gino Germani' (University of Buenos Aires). ALEJANDRA SERPENTE Doctoral student at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK. CECILIA SOSA Argentine sociologist who worked for five years as a cultural journalist for the national newspaper Pagina 12.

Through various lenses and theoretical approaches, this book explores the contested experiences, meanings, realms, goals, and challenges associated with the construction, preservation, and transmission of the memories of state repression in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay.Through various lenses and theoretical approaches, this book explores the contested experiences, meanings, realms, goals, and challenges associated with the construction, preservation, and transmission of the memories of state repression in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay.