Abstract

CINTO, Agustina. “A very particular corner”: heritage disputes in a former clandestine detention center of Rosario city (2015-2019). Astrolabio [online]. 2021, n.27, pp.124-153. ISSN 1668-7515.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.55441/1668.7515.n27.31035.

This paper aims to analyze a series of heritage disputes around the former clandestine detention center (CDC) Information Service of Santa Fe’s state police department, located in Rosario city, which functioned between 1976 and 1980, during the last dictatorship. Considering heritage as a sacred laicized object and crossed by disputes, we delimited a period between 2015 and 2019 for the analysis, when the former CDC was inaugurated as Space of Memory. In this process, which involves the State, the Human Rights movement, and experts in materiality, we distinguished two aspects, which valorize it in different ways, as well as two related but opposite heritage intervention criteria. In this framework, the former CDC (des)sacralization, its characteristics, and possible practices have meaning situationally, according to the actors who carry them out. The problem is part of an ongoing doctoral research, developed through an ethnographic fieldwork since 2015, which includes participant observations and non-directive interviews, but also documentary and press analysis and photographic record.

Keywords : Heritage; disputes; sacralization; former clandestine detention center; Rosario.

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