The Slogan "Complete Memory". A reactive resignification of the memory of the dissapeared.

SALVI, VALENTINA

Leeds, Reino Unido

Conferencia; 45th Annual Conference of Society of Latin American Studies; 2009

University of Leeds

After the derogation of amnesty laws -Punto Final and Obediencia Debida-, and in a context of new trials to military personnel accused of violations to human rights, people from the civil and the military sector impulse the slogan of “Complete Memory” trying to surpass the strongly corporative frame of the army and spread more widely a particular narrative on the present past in order to posit themselves as a new actor in the scenery of memory in Argentina. The revival of the civic-military memory was staged on public acts that pay tribute to “the death of subversion” during the year 2006 in San Martin square en Buenos Aires, but also in an active politics of diffusion in books and documents, conferences, public informs about “fight against subversion”, webs pages and in discussions forums of recent past. The analysis of these speeches and commemorative tributes will allow me to understand how the attempt to re-built a memory by mirroring and reacting towards the memory of the dissapearences aims of give legitimacy to actions and slogans of the dictatorship that are deeply discredited among public opinion. This paper focus on the apropiation and resignification that this these sectors make of the core slogans from human rights organization in Argentina during 30 years: “Memory, True and Justice”