Memoria y modos de representar los juicios contra genocidas en Argentina. Un concepto para abordar la prensa escrita

• Main Author: Natalia Paola Crocco
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad del Magdalena 2017-07-01
• Series: Jangwa Pana
• Subjects: Developments; Memory; Trials; written press
• Online Access: http://revistas.unimagdalena.edu.co/index.php/jangwapana/article/view/2134/1585
• ISSN: 1657-4923; 2389-7872

This article proposes to review and discuss several academic works on the concept of “memory”. The main aim is constructing a frame to deal with the way in which the graphic press represents the trial process against those responsible for the crimes committed by the State during the last civic-military dictatorship in Argentina (1976- 1983). The article opens with an introduction that places the trial process in Argentina as an event allowing for the emergence of new discourses and meanings linked to terror, which in turn produces new developments in the Social Sciences in general and in the studies of memory in particular. The first section focuses on the ways in which “memory” has been discussed and defined as an analytical category by the Social Sciences. The subsequent sectionsaim to coalesce the main characteristics of the concept of memory built throughout the article, thus understood as a situated, conflictive, multiple, long-lasting process that connects past, present and future. Finally, the discussion and conclusions seek to contrast such concept with the approach of trials in the written press, leaving some questions open to further debate.