This is a book on one of the most important contemporary social movements, the Brazilian MST, formally known as the Soil Rural Workers’ Movement. Its main objective is to study its symbolic, cultural and ritual system represented by the concept of museum, whose imaginary rooted and takes life in the...

This work analyses the symbolic function of the monuments commemorating the gestures of Independence in Mexico and Argentina, based on the study of the modern concept of historical monument, which developed mainly in the 19th century, with the rise and growth of cities and the rapid changes in the t...

This work analyses the symbolic function of the monuments commemorating the gestures of Independence in Mexico and Argentina, based on the study of the modern concept of historical monument, which developed mainly in the 19th century, with the rise and growth of cities and the rapid changes in the t...

the ‘imaginary’, as intended to be considered in this work, is a symbolic construction of collective memory. It seeks to shape identity awareness and, on the basis of it, to organise society. The form you acquired in practice was called in a wide variety of ways: public spirit, popular will or publi...

El propósito de este artículo es analizar la recuperación ritual, discursiva y simbólica de la Batalla de Yungay (20 de enero de 1839) en el contexto de la Guerra del Pacífico (1879-1883). El texto estudia la actualización del imaginario del triunfo de Yungay realizada por el discurso nacionalista c...

In this work we are proposing an approximation to the construction of the political power in force in the province of San Luis since 1983, by investigating the mechanisms of production and symbolic reproduction that consolidate its hegemony. The question that guides this article is where local autho...

This article analyses the ways in which the identities of victims of state terrorism are built during the oral hearings of the Judiciary at the 1985 Military Boards in Argentina. It points to clarifying the ways in which the judicial context and the cultural and political context interacted in these...

El is proposed as an initial exercise to construct the Historical Memory of the Santander Industrial University, UIS, in the context of the Colombian internal armed conflict in the 1980s, with the aim of promoting symbolic collective redress vis-à-vis the university community and the community in ge...

Conflict logic designs territories and create certain ways to inhabit them. This is why the social appropriation of past experience converted into a collective memory and its reconfiguration through the construction of citizens created from the filigrana that emerges when memories take place on a da...

El Palacio de la Moneda, as the National Historical Monument, is one of the central elements in the unfinished construction of the Republic of Chile. This investigation wonders about the dispute and update of this truth of the founding past, present and possible future of this Palace of Government....

The present investigation explores the presence of the Cacid Valley in NO-DO film news in the period from 1943, the date of the first screening of the newspaper, until 1981, the last projection and disappearance of the organisation. The symbolic significance of the Valle de los Caajados is analysed...

The proposal for this article is part of the analysis and reflection of a socio-spatial process that we call the lugarisation of memory as a concept to think of the reversed reference frames in the narrative and symbolic construction of a memorial site. In this work, we will analyse the artistic int...

From the theoretical frameworks of the literature sociology and since the consideration of poetic language, the Camino de Santiago is presented as a great human development and as a symbolic construction of Spanish and European society from the depths of the Middle Ages to tardomoderity. The Santiag...

In this work we are proposing an approximation to the construction of the political power in force in the province of San Luis since 1983, by investigating the mechanisms of production and symbolic reproduction that consolidate its hegemony. The question that guides this article is where local autho...

Identification metaphors in the city during the celebration of the Centenary in Chile were defined by partisan speeches, access to modernity and opposition to the continuity of the political, cultural and social system that originated in the 19th century. In addition, the definition of the territory...

The article reflects on the duty of the Colombian state and society to build historical and collective memory as part of the duties towards the victims of the armed conflict, in the context of comprehensive reparation, the right to truth and compliance with measures of satisfaction and non-repetitio...

Have a brief tour of the recent history of Guatemalan visual arts, highlighting their involvement in the reconstruction of the country after the internal war. Guatemala has lived for more than 40 years in an armed conflict that left a lacerated and broken country in its most basic cohabitation struc...