Abstract
In recent decades, memoirs about the Colombian conflict took center stage over other topics and agendas. Memory served as a “state duty” through regulatory frameworks, generating “political and symbolic effects” within “a kind of regime of institutional truth” (Jaramillo, 2014; Castaño, Jurado and Ruiz, 2018; Castaño and Jurado, 2019). But the debate on historical memory, its uses and its limitations, above all, in museums is pending in the context of the Colombian post-conflict since the state has not yet enunciated an “official” history that mobilizes a collective imagination. and that situates the reflection on historical memory, from museums. In this context, this research identifies the origin and evolution of the concept of historical memory to make contributions to a public policy of historical memory from museums since these are places of collective construction of the present, which guarantees the “use of memory”, as part of the reparation process for victims. At the same time, public policy must allow museums and places of memory to be thought of as democratizing, inclusive and political spaces for participatory dialogue with communities because “the processes of elaboration of historical memory can become the terrain from which the formation of more democratic and responsible individual and collective identities” (CNMH, 2009, p.36). Finally, the methodology used in this research is documentary analysis.
Presenters
Rodolfo TorregrosaResearcher, School of Law, Universidad Libre sede La Candelaria, Distrito Capital de Bogotá, Colombia
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Historical memory, Public policies, Museum
