REMEMBERING THE CHILEAN DICTATORSHIP BY VISITING PLACES OF MEMORY

Abstract

In the framework of the studies on places of memory related to human rights violations committed by the Chilean military-civic dictatorship (1973-1990), this article presents the analysis of visits to two places of memory of Santiago de Chile - Villa Grimaldi and London 38 - made by people of different age groups. The analysis addresses the interaction of the visitors with the place, considering the affections and perceptions that the visit caused, and the interpellation that these places cause to the memories that the visitors build on the recent past. The results show that, although there is an agreement on the condemnation of human rights violations and the importance of a culture of memory and human rights, there is a distance among the generations when assessing past conflicts that refer to different historic moments.