Site of memory and site of forgetting: the repurposing of the Punta Carretas Prison
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10.1177/0094582X15570882
Autor
Guglielmucci, Ana
Scaraffuni Ribeiro, Luciana
Institución
Resumen
Efforts to classify the Punta Carretas Prison, repurposed as a shopping center, into a “site
of forgetting” imposed through the logic of the market obscure the ongoing productivity of the
place as a vehicle of memory linked not only to the military dictatorship but also to the privatization
of public patrimony. They fail to account for the dynamic and complex process of
construction of a common past resulting from direct confrontations between different sectors
of Uruguayan society. The increasing politicization and spatialization of collective memory,
focusing on past experiences of repression, overlook the link between memory, history, nationstate,
museum, everyday life, people’s dreams, their sense of the future, and utopia.