Relationships between collective memory and citizenship: Narrate for repair

Abstract

This text addresses the link between the narrative structure of collective memory (Halbwachs, 2004b) and the hermeneutical dimension of citizenship (Valderrama, 2010), from the research findings called Configurations of collective memory in participants of the School Press Program between 2015 and 2019. For these purposes, a qualitative methodology was applied, of document review design, and the texts of young people, compiled in the annual publication El Taller, were analyzed. It was identified that the themes developed in the narratives, where collective memory and citizenship are linked, are identity and territory, standard frames of thought, and reconstruction of the past. In this way, the narration facilitates recognizing reality and its problems, since the young people attending the Program could express their perception of the world, confront elements of their environment and give place to the other. The texts acquire resonance as hermeneutics enter to build bridges to understand the world, and in the case of citizenship, for the construction of new ways of living together.