El pasado es de todos. Neoliberalismo y normalización de la memoria en las post-dictaduras de España y Argentina

Abstract

Despite their historical differences, the Spanish and Argentine democracies articulate a shared language of consensus and national reconciliation to face the recent past. This discourse conveys a specific memory regime of political violence, one which requires the forgetting and overcoming of the conflict as conditions for the desired democratic normalization. I propose to think about this desire / promise and its consensual semantics as inherent to the process of capitalist modernization initiated during the dictatorships and perpetuated in democracies with the implementation of neoliberalism. Understanding its continuities allows us, on the one hand, to reveal a systemic violence rendered invisible by the celebratory narratives of neoliberal modernization and, on the other, to defy the depoliticization of the past, resignifying their struggles as a common –and still in force– legacy.

Keywords

• memoria colectiva
• dictadura
• neoliberalismo
• modernización
• consenso