‘titrebSummary’/titrebIn a generic way, we have called ‘memory entrepreneurs’ the individuals who aim to change the ‘collective memory’ of a social entity such as a nation. Starting from the case of the memory of the Vietnam war in the United States, we have tried to show that this company of constr...

Guilllermo de la Peña is one of the most prestigious Mexican anthropologists. Doctorate in anthropology, University of Manchester (Great Britain), is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and has received awards and scholarships from the National Council of Science and Technology, the Ford Fou...

This article analyses the urban and architectural changes that Bogotá suffered from the celebration of the first Colombian Independence Centenary in 1910, an event that took place in an urbe that would experience overwhelming population and physical growth in the twentieth century. To this end, the...

The Political Revolution. Between autonomies and independence in Hispanoamerica "is a work that, on the basis of a collective reflection, reflects the most recent progress made by some of the most relevant specialists in the study of Spanish-American independence. All these texts have a common threa...

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...

in Chile, historical memory processes have been linked to public art practices and to making cities from their origins to today, distinguishing three main forms, each directly linked to the historical, political and social processes that the country has experienced. At the beginning of this year, we...

For a social history of memory: society and commemoration in Barcelona at the end of the nineteenth century 1. Stéphane Michonneau From the 1860s, part of Catalan society is organised to produce collective memory. It not only supports a specific and coherent reading of the past of Spain and Cataloni...