ISSN:
0965-8343
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Latin American cultural studies
Publ. der Quelle:
Abingdon : Taylor & Francis
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 25, No. 1 (2016), p. 147-19
DDC:
910
Abstract:
This article looks at the process of incorporation, over the last decade, of three 'new victims' in the social and political landscape of Spain: stolen babies, detained-disappeared persons, and victims of Francoism. These three figures, while old in historical time, are very new in sociological time, where they even lack a name. To analyze this paradoxical birth, I will posit the idea that the naming, classifying, and categorizing processes that sustain it are not only explained through dynamics that are internal to the field of victims and/or to the management of the recent past in Spain, they are also explained by movements that have to do with changes in the circulation of transnational memories, stemming from new origins-Latin America, and in particular Argentina-and speeding across oceans and eras, down the very recently paved freeway of humanitarian reason. The article combines ethnographic description with the analysis of data obtained from a multidisciplinary and multi-situated fieldwork.
Note:
Copyright: © 2016 Taylor & Francis 2016
DOI:
10.1080/13569325.2016.1143352
URL:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13569325.2016.1143352
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