Abstract

CRENZEL, Emilio. Transmission questioned.: Youth, awareness, and memory of repression at Posadas Hospital, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. univ.humanist. [online]. 2011, n.72, pp.111-132. ISSN 0120-4807.

This paper analyses popular wisdom and memory transmission regarding State terrorism and forced disappearance, which are circulating among youth living around Hospital Posadas, located in Haedo, a province to Buenos Aires, Argentina. At this hospital, there was, under the military dictatorship (1976-1983), a Clandestine Imprisonment Center, where people were kept prisoner as disappeared. Therefore, at this facility both practices of health restoration and torture and murder perpetration coexisted. Through thirty in-depth interviews carried out among neighbor young people, the existence of manifold knowledge fractures and memory transmission about State violence is verified, being a result from the social relations breakthrough that used to articulate the neighborhood and the hospital, and from the material life conditions promoting undifferentiated historical and political time awareness.

Keywords : Argentina; Posadas Hospital; neighbors; youth; disappearances; memories.

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