Museums and transitional justice in the Brazilian context: memory and information in the construction of trauma representation spaces

• Autor(a) principal: Hoffman, Felipe Eleutério
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Frota, Maria Guiomar da Cunha
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Em Questão (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EmQuestao/article/view/81870
• topic: Memória; Informação; Museu; Justiça de Transição; Brasil.

Across the globe, events such as the Holocaust, Apartheid, Eleventh of September and the dictatorial periods in Latin America have generated an obligation to be accountable to the past, especially through the necessity of creating places of memory to mark the time. The emergence of museums and memorials about the memories of repression and resistance in the dictatorial contexts of the Latin American countries of the Southern Cone follows this global context in which is observed the creation of a growing number of information and memory institutions that adopt the local causes in relation to human rights as the main issue of their institutional mission. Regarding the Brazilian context, the measures that characterize the field of transitional justice have differentiated stages of implementation in each one of its dimensions and, in general, different authors recognize that many measures are considered late in relation to other Latin American countries. This essay aims to analyze the emergence of museum institutions in contexts of transitional justice focused on the Brazilian reality. Some of the central aspects that involve the establishment of these institutions and some of the issues involved are outlined. Finally, it presents some of these initiatives at the national level.