Mayki Gorosito is the Executive Director of the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory, a museum and memorial located within the former Navy Mechanics School of the Argentine Republic. During the civic-military dictatorship (1976–1983), it was the main Clandestine Centre for Detention, Torture, and Extermination, where approximately 5,000 people were abducted, tortured, and disappeared. As …
Alejandra Naftal, Executive Director of the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory, writes about it nomination process for the UNESCO World Heritage List,
Federico Finchelstein
Professor of History New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College
At times when reality challenges us and we know little about what awaits us as a community, as a country and as global citizens, it is even more important to remember. We must learn from our experiences and construct collective memory that brings us together and gives us the strength and tools we need to endure the challenges and give hope to the next generations.
Picture: Operativo Independencia, to dismantle the ERP. Tucumán, Argentina (1975) | Public domain By Valentina Salvi, an assistant researcher at CIS-CONICET / IDES. Associate Professor of Social Theory “Georg Simmel” of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires and of Sociology of Culture of the Department of Art and Culture of the …
Picture: Members of the Ejército Guerrillero del Pueblo in Salta, 1964 | Revista El Sur By Leigh A Payne, Latin American Centre, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies What happens when armed left guerrilla or revolutionary fighters confess to past violence? Can they contribute to building stronger democracies or human rights cultures? …
