INVESTIGADORES
MUDROVCIC Maria Ines
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Historical representation and sacred memory
Autor/es:
MUDROVCIC, MARÍA INÉS
Lugar:
Lisboa, Portugal
Reunión:
Congreso; 7th European Social science history Conference; 2008
Institución organizadora:
Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis
Resumen:
This Conference is entitled Collective Memory and the uses of the past. Let me begin with the phrase uses of the past. The only way we can use a thing or an object is when this thing or object has a meaning for us. In this sense, we can use the past as an object of knowledge as, for example, in historiography. Or we can use it in a political way as, for example, when we legitimate a present order appellant to the past. Or we can use it in a moral way as when we restore justice to actual victims of actions committed in the past. But I think that it is not so easy to understand what we mean when we speak about collective memory. This paper deals with two profoundly related subjects: collective memory and history of the present or history of the recent past. Firstly, I will try to define what I understand by collective memory. Secondly, I will do the same with history of the present. Finally, I will show some difficulties in applying the concept of trauma as an analytical social category to analyze both of them.
