collective memory

Skinheads and history

Sebastián Vargas legionesdeclio@gmail.com Universidad Minuto de Dios, Colombia Abstract: This paper was inspired by the interest to explore the ways how common people — outside academia— perceive and re-appropriate history. In particular, readings and uses of history among two groups from the city of Bogotá —Naziskins and RASH— are studied. This paper is organized in […]

Presentism vs. historicity in Afrocolombian social revindication: Analysing the use of collective memory by Asociación de Afrocolombianos Desplazados —Afrodes—

Gina Catherine León Cabrera gina.leon@gmail.com Museo Nacional de Colombia – ICANH Curaduría Antropología e Etnografía, Colombia Abstract: From a constructivist approach to collective action, this paper addresses the political use of collective memory the Asociación de Afrocolombianos Desplazados —Afrodes—, in order to identify continuances, shifts and changes in the historical process of mobilization by the organization’s […]