Accounting for Violence: Marketing Memory in Latin America (The cultures and practice of violence series)

Accounting for Violence offers bold new perspectives on the politics of memory in Latin America. Scholars from across the humanities and social sciences provide in-depth analyses of the political economy of memory in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay, countries that emerged from authoritarian rule in the 1980s and 1990s. The contributors take up issues of authenticity and commodification, as well as the “never again” imperative implicit in memory goods and memorial sites. They describe how bookstores, cinemas, theaters, the music industry, and television shows (and their commercial sponsors) trade in testimonial and fictional accounts of the authoritarian past; how tourist itineraries have come to include trauma sites and memorial museums; and how memory studies has emerged as a distinct academic field profiting from its own journals, conferences, book series, and courses. The memory market, described in terms of goods, sites, producers, marketers, consumers, and patrons, presents a paradoxical situation. On the one hand, commodifying memory potentially cheapens it. On the other hand, too little public exposure may limit awareness of past human-rights atrocities; such awareness may help to prevent their recurring. Contributors. Rebecca J. Atencio, Ksenija Bilbija, Jo-Marie Burt, Laurie Beth Clark, Cath Collins, Susana Draper, Nancy Gates-Madsen, Susana Kaiser, Cynthia E. Milton, Alice A. Nelson, Carmen Oquendo Villar, Leigh A. Payne, José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra, Maria Eugenia Ulfe Foreword : On Memory And Memorials / Luisa Valenzuela -- Introduction : Time Is Money : The Memory Market In Latin America / Ksenija Bilbija And Leigh A. Payne -- A Prime Time To Remember : Memory Merchandising In Globo's Anos Rebeldes / Rebecca Atencio -- Accounting For Murder : The Contested Narratives Of The Life And Death Of Maria Elena Moyano / Jo-marie Burt -- Trauma Tourism In Latin America / Laurie Beth Clark And Leigh A. Payne -- The Business Of Memory : Reconstructing Torture Centers As Shopping Malls And Tourist Sites / Susana Draper -- Marketing And Sacred Space : The Parque De La Memoria In Buenos Aires / Nancy Gates-madsen -- Reading '68 : The Tlatelolco Memorial And Gentrification In Mexico City / José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra -- Promoting Peru : Tourism And Post-conflict Memory / Cynthia Milton And Maria Eugenia Ulfe -- The Moral Economy Of Memory : Public And Private Commemorative Space In Post-pinochet Chile / Cath Collins -- Dress For Success : Fashion, Memory, And Media Representation Of Augusto Pinochet / Carmen Oquendo Villar -- Tortured By Fashion : Making Memory Through Corporate Advertising / Ksenija Bilbija -- Memory Inventory : The Production And Consumption Of Memory Goods In Argentina / Susana Kaiser -- Conclusion : Marketing Discontent : The Political Economy Of Memory In Latin America / Alice A. Nelson. Ksenija Bilbija And Leigh A. Payne, Eds. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. This title offers different perspectives on the politics of memory in Latin America. Scholars from across the humanities and social sciences provide in-depth analyses of the political economy of memory in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay, countries that emerged from authoritarian rule in the 1980s and 1990s Offering bold new perspectives on the politics of memory in Latin America, scholars analyze the memory markets in six countries that emerged from authoritarian rule in the 1980s and 1990s.