Os lugares de consciência das ditaduras militares argentina, brasileira e chilena: um olhar ampliado para sua salvaguarda

Abstract

This research is dedicated to reflecting on the processes of preservation and heritage valorization of sites of conscience regarding the military dictatorships in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. The research starts from the hypothesis that specific theoretical and practical approaches are necessary regarding the construction, production, and conservation of places of repression and resistance of the dictatorships in these three countries, due to the complexity of the political and social forces acting on the subject of traumatic memory in a new historicity regime. These are places that live in a constant struggle between the insistence on becoming memory, or living in the void, elimination, and oblivion, as phenomena inherent to a fast-paced history of the present time, which produces and suppresses in instants. Understanding the problematic of the places starting from the memorial conflict, and inserting it into a new understanding of time, the research, through the analysis of affects, representations, and territories, seeks to suggest a directed and expanded approach for the preservation of sites that witnessed and resisted human rights violations during the last Argentine, Brazilian, and Chilean military dictatorships. The need for new ways of acting on the site of conscience is then discussed, in order to value the catalyzing power of memories of these testimonial spaces. In this sense, theoretical and practical particularities are debated to support the need for the elaboration of representations about the place, activating the site to compensate for the elimination process of these traumatic spaces. To this end, the conception of a place-narrative to be preserved-produced must extrapolate the materiality of the space, seeking the languages of art, architecture, and urban planning to generate narratives that give meaning to the oral history of family members and victims of human rights violations.