The Space of Remembering: Collective Memory and the Reconfiguration of Contested Space in Argentina’s ESMA

Abstract

This paper explores the ongoing history of the ESMA museum’s developmentand argues that the intrinsic and conflictual collective memory work involved is characterized by competing desires to remember and to forget, rooted in the physical,visible, and public space of ESMA.

Keywords

• Collective memory
• Public space
• ESMA
• Dirty War
• Representations of Torture