La seconda vita di una madre. Le Madri di plaza de Mayo e la cultura della memoria
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Keywords
- This essay analyzes the contemporary culture of memory in Buenos Aires. The development of this culture since the democratic transition â€
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- and since Nestor Kirchnerâ€
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- s turn in government in particular â€
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- is investigated. Data come from field-work research during the period of Cristina Kirchnerâ€
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- s election victory in 2007. The official explanation of the duty to remember in order to re-establish the nationâ€
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- s democratic basis is shown through an analysis of Buenos Airesâ€
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- s urban landscape
- and the building of such places of memory as the Museum of Memory and the Park of Memory
- coinciding respectively with Nestor Kirchnerâ€
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- s first election
- and with Cristina Kirchnerâ€
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- s election. The analysis of contemporary collective sensibility about the past dictatorship introduces an interview with a Madre de Plaza de Mayo
- suggesting the task of watching over memory
- and of coping with its current multiple interpretations
