À quoi servent les politiques de mémoire ?

Gensburger, Sarah; Lefranc, Sandrine

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“…Various memories, related to both contemporary and ancient history, all begin to assert themselves: slavery, dictatorship, colonization/decolonization, the colonial war/desertion and exile, emigration. Alongside these political claims to memory we find, more often than not, demands for public recognition (Gensburger and Lefranc 2017), and the founding of museums. An example is the establishment in 2015 of the Museu do Aljube: Resistência e Liberdade [Museum of the Resistance and Liberty], which is "dedicated to the history and memory of the struggle against the dictatorship and in recognition of the resistance in the name of freedom and democracy" 55 .…”

Section: Plurality Of Memory and "Public Uses" In Portuguese Societymentioning

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The Retornados and Their “Roots” in Angola. A Generational Perspective on the Colonial Past and the Postcolonial Present

Santos¹

2021

The Retornados From the Portuguese Colonies in Africa

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Chapter 4: The retornados and their "roots" in Angola. A generational perspective on the colonial past and the post-colonial present A sketch of the field of investigation, Lisbon, May 2013 This year, the Africa Festival, including a celebration of Africa Day, is being commemorated in Portugal throughout the whole month of May.24 May, in Lisbon, at the Teatro do Bairro: I am watching a performance called The Last Message of Amílcar Cabral to the people of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. Some images from documentary films depicting the Portuguese presence in Africa are being projected in a very dark room. Pictures of a family of Portuguese settlers living in a hut are repeated over and over again-they are lost in the depths of Africa. A message is vigorously hammered home for several minutes by one of the performers, a Cape Verdean who describes himself as a political activist: "Decolonise your minds! Decolonise your minds! Decolonise your minds!" The few spectators are young: a dozen people, including a couple comprising a child of retornados and a young Portuguese-Angolan woman.25 May, Rossio Square: The Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries, the CPLP, is being celebrated by several hundred people and by associations of migrants from Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé, Angola and Mozambique, as well as some Portuguese families of retornados: they are all dancing. On the sidelines of this celebration of an Africa that is simultaneously "authentic" and "Lusophone", a group of young Afro-descendant activists are denouncing the neo-colonialist ideology of Lusophony and racism in Portugal. 1 This research, which was initiated as part of the FCT postdoctoral project "Legados contemporâneos do colonialismo na sociedade portuguesa pelo prisma das migraçoes" (SFRH/BPD/72232/2010), is part of a larger project, "Disrupted Histories, Recovered Past" (2016)(2017)(2018)(2019), jointly developed by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Care for the Future section (Swindon, UK), and the Laboratoire d'excellence (Labex), "Passés dans le Présent" section (Université de Nanterre), directed by Sian Sullivan (Bath Spa University) and Michèle Baussant (CNRS). 2 Quoting Gerald Bender (1978), Lubkemann suggests that 30% of the European population in Angola extends back more than one generation (2003, 79). The number of "retornados of African descent" who arrived in Portugal between 1975 and 1981 has been estimated at between 25,000 and 35,000 (Baganha and Gois 1998-1999, 260): "a figure possibly amplified if we consider the fact that many of those of mixed racial descent would be likely to be classified as 'black' at least in terms of the way they would be treated in everyday interaction within Portuguese society" (Lubkemann 2003, 89). This category of "retornados of African descent" is problematic because it refers to socio-historical realities of (de)colonization which are diverse.

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Section: Plurality Of Memory and "Public Uses" In Portuguese Societymentioning

confidence: 97%

The Retornados and Their “Roots” in Angola. A Generational Perspective on the Colonial Past and the Postcolonial Present

Santos¹

2021

The Retornados From the Portuguese Colonies in Africa

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“…Nous touchons là à l'un des marqueurs significatifs de la complexité d'une transmission en milieu scolaire qui rende possible une émancipation. Ces dilemmes, même s'ils présentent par définition un caractère insoluble, sont toutefois à affronter, en les problématisant, pour éviter les écueils récurrents de la prescription, de l'injonction et des formes de catéchisme laïc qui mènent à des impasses et ne parviennent pas à atteindre leurs objectifs, même lorsqu'ils sont pertinents, comme l'ont montré des réflexions récentes sur les questions de mémoire (Gensburger & Lefranc, 2017).…”

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Heimberg¹

2021

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“…En relación con ello, cabe destacar que este cruce o zona de intersección ha sido escasamente explorada. Como señala Gensburger (2017) aun cuando el término «políticas de la memoria» aparece a menudo entre sociólogos/as e historiadores/as (además de funcionar como una categoría nativa), pocos estudios se han dedicado a comprender empíricamente cómo se dan los vínculos entre política y memoria y el modo en que los marcos de interpretación del pasado se orientan y se tensionan en función de lógicas de poder y de identificación política. Desde esa perspectiva, en esta oportunidad nos centraremos en el análisis de la discusión desde el punto de vista de la política institucional.…”

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¿Quién tiene derecho a recordar? Las disputas por la memoria durante los gobiernos kirchneristas (Argentina, 2003-2015)

Balé

2021

Pasado y Memoria

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El artículo se propone abordar las principales disputas que tuvieron lugar en Argentina frente al involucramiento del Estado en la formulación de “políticas de memoria” durante los gobiernos de Néstor Kirchner y Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2003-2015). Para ello, nos detendremos en las discusiones que tuvieron lugar en el Congreso Nacional en ocasión de la construcción de un Museo en el ex Centro Clandestino de Detención ESMA. Analizaremos las principales críticas formuladas por la oposición partidaria en clave de “ilegitimidad”, “apropiación” y “banalización” de la memoria. La reconstrucción de estos argumentos y las respuestas esgrimidas por el oficialismo nos permitirán dar cuenta de los términos en que se desarrolló la disputa política por el pasado e introducir algunas consideraciones en torno del papel otorgado al “consenso” como modo de legitimación de la acción estatal en la materia.¿Who is entitled to remember? Memory conflicts during Kirchner and Fernández de Kirchner’s administrations in Argentina (2003-2015).The articleanalyses the main memory conflicts that took place in Argentina vis- à-vis the State involvement in memory politics during Néstor Kirchner and Fernández de Kirchner’s administrations (2003-2015). To this effect, it examines some of the debates held in the national parliament concerning the construction of a museum at the ex- clandestine detention center ESMA. It goes over the main critiques made by the political opposition (expressed in terms of “illegitimacy”, “appropriation” and “trivialization of memories”) and the responses held by the government. Altogether, this analysis will show the way in which the political arena dealt with the past in contemporary Argentina and will allow us to introduce some consideration Key words: Memory politics, Kirchnerism, State, ESMA

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À quoi servent les politiques de mémoire ?

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The Retornados and Their “Roots” in Angola. A Generational Perspective on the Colonial Past and the Postcolonial Present

The Retornados and Their “Roots” in Angola. A Generational Perspective on the Colonial Past and the Postcolonial Present

Enseigner la possibilité de l’engagement, entre intelligibilité et dévolution

¿Quién tiene derecho a recordar? Las disputas por la memoria durante los gobiernos kirchneristas (Argentina, 2003-2015)

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