The relationship between archival appraisal and memory policies in Brazil and Uruguay

This paper aims to analyze the public policies of document and memory evaluation in Brazil and Uruguay. To this end, it focuses on the regulations of both countries, seeking elements that allow the identification of state initiatives to conserve documents produced during the last period of democrati...

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Autores: Mintegui, Evelin, Gallo, Carlos Artur, Karpinski, Cezar
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repositorio:Em Questão (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/92144
Acceso en línea:https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EmQuestao/article/view/92144
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Políticas de memória
Avaliação de documentos de arquivo
Arquivos
Direitos humanos
Politics of memory
Archival appraisal policy
Archives and records
Human rights.
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Sumario:This paper aims to analyze the public policies of document and memory evaluation in Brazil and Uruguay. To this end, it focuses on the regulations of both countries, seeking elements that allow the identification of state initiatives to conserve documents produced during the last period of democratic exception. The methodology is presented as qualitative, using documentary and bibliographic sources. Documents that base archival policies on the websites of their institutions were raised, especially laws, resolutions and manuals, seeking elements that indicate models, criteria and methods of document evaluation. In these materials, references to memory policies were then sought. As results, it considers that both countries incorporate in their methodology the theory of value to set deadlines for document storage and disposal, but that Uruguay links macro-value measures in prescribing the total conservation of documents produced in the last period of democratic exception. It concludes with brief considerations about the archive evaluation process and its necessary appropriation, both by public agents involved in archive policies and by the “memory entrepreneur” groups.