RT Article
T1 ‘Now the neighbors lose their fear’: restoring the social network around former sites of terror in Argentina
JF International journal of transitional justice
VO 6
IS 3
SP 467
OP 485
A1 Schindel, Estela 1968-
LA English
YR 2012
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/184333867X
AB State terror in Argentina in the late 1970s was aimed at dismantling social relationships of mutual commitment and solidarity and imposing in their stead practices of fear, isolation and mistrust. A permeating network of clandestine detention centers and illegal burial sites played a key role in spreading localized state terror to the whole of society. After describing the broader context of the dictatorship’s urban space restructuring policy, this article explores various practices currently taking place in former clandestine detention centers ‘recovered’ by civilians. The author suggests that the opening of these centers allows the emergence of narratives and everyday practices that can counteract the ones that prevailed under the dictatorship, fostering the opposite effect - active citizenship, counternarratives of terror and restored social networks. This approach highlights potential uses of memorial sites that have not received enough attention to date. Moreover, it can act as a bridge between the paradigm of transitional justice and the developments and aims of spatial justice.
K1 Argentina
K1 Memory
K1 Clandestine detention center
K1 Spatial justice
K1 Social Networks
K1 State terror
DO 10.1093/ijtj/ijs020