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Title

Women's affective memories of trauma and the transmission of emotional knowledge in Argentina

Author(s)

Stockwell, Jill

Abstract

It's been more than 33 years since the military took power, and still Argentina continues to grapple with how to remember the period of political violence and state terrorism of the 1970s and 1980s. This is not new. Over the last few decades, moral and political claims about how this past should be collectively remembered by the nation have caused deep political and societal divisions. It is impossible to understand fully why such deep ruptures continue to persist in Argentine society without acknowledging the role played by individual emotions in generating and shaping collective emotions and affects, thereby helping to produce new forms of antagonism and solidarity within memorial cultures. In this article I explore what happens when divergent narratives of the past confront each other in the public sphere, and what kinds of ideas and conditions can enable a shift away from the politics of antagonism and competition towards one of mutual recognition.

Publication type

Journal article

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology

Source

Memory Studies, Vol. 4, no. 1 (Jan 2011), pp. 73-82

Publication year

2011

FOR Code(s)

1701 Psychology;  1702 Cognitive Sciences;  2203 Philosophy

Keyword(s)

Affective memories;  Argentina;  Emotions;  Women

Publisher

Sage Publications

ISSN

1750-6980

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698010382164

Copyright

Copyright © The Author(s) 2011.

Peer reviewed