"April 2nd" as a "place of memory" and its relationship with the policies of Memory, Truth and Justice: an approach to the production of commemorative gestures by the newspaper La Capital

Un abordaje de la producción de gestos conmemorativos del periódico La Capital

Abstract

We aim to work on the transformations in the collective memory of a traumatic
event, such as the Malvinas War. For this purpose, we use a theoretical
framework that, through the notions of memory, history, "commemoration," and
"place of memory," allows us to explore the process of constructing
commemoration aimed at processing that memory, which was intimately linked
to the dictatorship and military defeat. We understand that the sources we
worked with allow us to observe a development clearly marked by the different
socio-political circumstances and their corresponding expectations, in which
commemorative practice tended to silence or enable the voices and identities of
the various actors who construct the memory of April 2nd.