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- Title
Desastre y Memoria Material: La Inundacion 2003 de Santa Fe, Argentina.
- Authors
Ullberg, Susann Baez
- Abstract
On April 29, 2003, a catastrophic flood occurred in the Argentina city of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz. Soon, the disaster became a political issue, as they had made serious accusations against the authorities and decision makers regarding negligence, corruption and lack of disaster preparedness. A local protest movement emerged, claiming both the allocation of responsibilities and financial compensation for the losses suffered by the victims. This article analyses the role of material memory and oblivion on the post disaster scene, more specifically, how different social actors in Santa Fe used places and objects in the contentious making of a disaster memoryscape. The analysis is based on ethnography from transtemporal translocal and field research conducted in Santa Fe between 2004 and 2011, and applies anthropological and sociological theories of memory to analyse these processes.
- Publication
Ibero-Americana - Nordic Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Studies, 2017, Vol 46, Issue 1, p42
- ISSN
0046-8444
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.16993/iberoamericana.106