El recuerdo colectivo y el terrorismo en Italia. Ceremonias conmemorativas: de los medios de comunicación de masas a los nuevos medios de comunicación
One concern of the sociology of memory is how can we remember terror and how can we forget it. Is there any cultural shape of remembering terror, which is more suitable than others? This article focuses on the social representation of a very controversial past -the massacre at the Bologna railway st...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2008 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Sevilla (US) |
| Repositorio: | idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:idus.us.es:11441/50815 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/11441/50815 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Terrorismo Ceremonia Conmemorativa Memoria Cultural Terrorism Commemoration Ceremonies Cultural Memory |
| Sumario: | One concern of the sociology of memory is how can we remember terror and how can we forget it. Is there any cultural shape of remembering terror, which is more suitable than others? This article focuses on the social representation of a very controversial past -the massacre at the Bologna railway station in 1980- , the relation between the collective knowledge of public events, such as a terror attack, and the process of their shaping into social practices (commemorative ceremonies) and cultural objects (public symbols of the slaughter). It will be shown how this process reflects tensions and articulates contradictions between the State and the civil society in the process of public inscription of the legitimate version of the past events. It will be argued that, due to a specific group of agents of memory -composed primarily by the association of the victims’ relatives and the committees of solidarity founded in the city during the last two decades- , the structure of the commemorative ceremony has lead to the public fixing of a specific genre of memorisation in Italy for the victims of terrorism. It becomes a crucial key to understand the public making of cultural memory. |
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