Memoria y subjetividad

Redefiniciones y vigencia desde los movimientos sociales y la violencia política

Abstract

The polysemy of the past of all society is unavoidably interwoven with the subjective trajectories. The view to the past on behalf of the collectivities is only possible parting from the shared significations, either perpetuating or questioning them, that are socially and historically built. Getting into the memory field implies to consider its relationship with the collective actions, the symbolic disputes in the public space and its emergencies in the present. The purpose of this article is to discuss the way in which social movements occasioned by political violence situations in Mexico contributes to recreate and confer validity to the link between memory and subjectivity. It is argued that such contribution is expressed as creative act that requires the conformation of autonomous readings of the past-present relationship, while pointing to new ways of linking the private and the public that are placed in the necessity to find coherence between the subjective elaboration and the socio-political transformation.