RT Article
T1 Political technologies of memory: uses and appropriations of artefacts that register and denounce state violence
JF International journal of transitional justice
VO 13
IS 1
SP 7
OP 29
A1 Bernasconi, Oriana
A2 Lira, Elizabeth 1944-
A2 Ruiz, Marcela
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1844128253
AB This article contributes to understanding the role of technologies during political violence and in transitional justice contexts, studying a case that was contemporaneous with the transnational construction of human rights activism. Examining documentation technologies that sustained nonviolent civic resistance to state terrorism during Chile’s Augusto Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990), the article highlights the role of technology in creating the kind of register that has become commonplace in human rights settings. Considering the use of technology over time, we propose the notion of ‘political technologies of memory’ to name the lasting effects of artefacts that register and denounce human rights violations. We discuss as ‘transposition’ the operations by which technologies may be transferred and appropriated, transcending their initial production context and purpose. We offer examples of registry technologies’ transposition into transitional justice mechanisms, showing how one such example was represented through an artwork that engaged Chilean society in an ongoing transitional justice conversation.
K1 human rights violations
K1 Technological effects
K1 Technological inscriptions
K1 Technological transpositions
K1 Chile
DO 10.1093/ijtj/ijy033