SITES OF MEMORY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF DEMOCRACY: SPAIN AND CHILE

Maria Chiara Bianchini
unpublished
This article compares the histories of two sites of memory located in the capital cities of Spain and Chile. Both sites are considered outstanding symbols of the last military dictatorship and their evolution over the past decade reflects the difficult construction of public discourses on dictatorial violence. Both processes take place at the end of two transitions to democracies that have followed similar patterns and have interacted with each other in many ways. Still, these two societies
more » ... handled very differently the dictatorial past and its representations.
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