Patrimonio cultural y espacios de la memoria en América Latina

The Museums of Recent Memory, Sites of Conscience and Memorials that have been created in Latin America in recent years, are conceived as tools towards a hermeneutics of state terrorism, as well as towards a pedagogy of coexistence in diversity that contributes to the status of education for peace in a world threatened by globalized violence. This new institutionality introduces new parameters of ideological conflict in spaces dedicated to the building of collective memories and identities, promoting the construction of subjectivities that review the notion of heritage, of collective memory, and of the construction of history. This forms part of a new political philosophy of cultural identities. As a result, it also leads to considering alternatives to the traditional concept of heritage conservation (based on technological mediation), which prioritize the political aspects of the social practices enabled by the heritage instead of its physical integrity and its perpetuity.Los Museos de la Memoria Reciente, los Sitios de Conciencia y los Memoriales creados en América Latina durante los últimos años, se proponen como instrumentos para una hermenéutica del terrorismo de Estado, pero también para una pedagogía de la convivencia en la diversidad que aporte al estatuto de la educación para la paz en un mundo amenazado por la violencia globalizada. Esta nueva institucionalidad introduce parámetros de conflictividad ideológica en espacios destinados a la construcción de memorias e identidades colectivas, propiciando la construcción de subjetividades críticas que reformulan la noción de patrimonio, de memoria colectiva, y de construcción de la historia, en el marco de una nueva filosofía política de las identidades culturales. Como consecuencia, también se plantean alternativas a la concepción tradicional de la conservación del patrimonio (basada en la mediación tecnológica), priorizando en cambio aspectos políticos de los usos sociales que él habilite, por encima de su integridad física y de su perpetuidad

Beyond the Fantastic : Contemporary Art Criticism From Latin America

Mosquera offers his selection of 22 essays as an introduction to the ongoing critical debates within and without Latin America about Latin American art. The selections, Mosquera notes, are characteristic of newer theories since the 1980s, representing a shift away from the key concepts of the criticism of the 1960s, such as “resistance” and “revolution,” towards those like “hybridisation” and “appropriation” which share features with North American-style multiculturalism and mass culture. Brief biographical notes on the authors. Glossary, 2 p. Circa 290 bibl. ref