Abstract

OCHOA SOTOMAYOR, Gloria Alejandra. Identities and memories at Londres 38, Paine, and Chacabuco (Chile). Rev. colomb. soc. [online]. 2017, vol.40, suppl.1, pp.27-43. ISSN 0120-159X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcs.v40n1Supl.65905.

The article studies the relationship between identity and memory, understanding the latter in a dual dimension: as a continuation of identity and as a means to build identity. From this perspective, the text inquiries into the identity-memory relationship in four organizations that denounce State terrorism and the violation of human rights in Chile after the military coup of 1973. It analyzes the relation between the past actions of these groups and their present expression and identity, which is defined as a suture and a strategic positioning that makes it possible to historicize the expressions of memory and reflect on them by going beyond contingent approaches. Through the militant memory of Londres 38, the peasant memory of Memorial Paine, and the community turned memory in the case of Chacabuco, the article explains how the abovementioned dual dimension of memory allows us to understand the different approaches to a fact accepted by the organizations under analysis. Thus, their characteristics and peculiarities, their action, and their evolution make it possible to recognize the differences, expressions, and possibilities of these organizations regarding their continued presence in the space of social narratives of the past and present, and, above all, the identities that they express. For this reason, the paper highlights the relevance of acknowledging the dual dimension of memory. At the same time, it encourages reflection and inquiry into the widely accepted relationship between identity and memory and its expression in the discursive space of the new social contexts in which it is produced and which each group has to deal with.

Keywords : Chacabuco; Chile; identity; memory; Londres 38; Paine.

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