Argentine Catholicism During the Last Military Dictatorship: Unresolved Tensions and Tragic Outcomes

Catoggio, María Soledad

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“…His position within the Church deteriorated rapidly and led to his dismissal from his parish in September of 1952, in the context of a purge that also included the expulsion of his mentor, the bishop of the diocese of Antioquia, Luis Andrade Valderrama, who went into exile in the United States (Blandón, 1953;Gil, 2018). 86 Theisen (1974) and Catoggio (2013) have pointed out that the stigmatization and persecution of ecclesial agents by Catholic hierarchs and conservative politicians for their engagement in pastoral and political work with victims of state-sponsored violence is an old phenomenon in Latin America, that expresses the articulation of national and regional violent realities with the internal life of the Church. The work of Levine (1981) addresses the problem regarding Colombia and Venezuela during the decades of 1960 and 1970.…”

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"The palace of justice Holocaust", or "The Plaza de Bolívar battle" : an anthropological contribution to the comparative analysis of memorialization of political violence in Colombia

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The book deals with a comprehensive constellation of narrative and visual, often counterposed representations of the causes, course, and results of the assault on the Palace of Justice of Colombia by a guerrilla commando and the immediate counterattack launched by state security forces on November 6, 1985, as well as with the local memorial traditions in which the production, circulation and reproduction of these representations have taken place between 1985 and 2020. The research on which it is based was grounded in the method and perspective of classical anthropology, in as much as qualitative fieldwork and the search for the perspective of the actors involved have played a central role. Within that context, memory entrepreneurs belonging to diverse sectors, from the far-right to the human rights movement, were followed through multisited fieldwork in various locations of Colombia, as well as in various countries of America and Europe. The analyses of fieldwork data, documental sources, and visual representations that constitute the core of the argument are framed in the field of memory studies and mainly based on theoretical and methodological resources from Pierre Bourdieu’s Field Theory, Jeffrey Alexander’s theory of social trauma, and Ernst Gombrich’s characterization of iconological analysis. The book is composed of four chapters preceded by an introduction and followed by the conclusions and documental appendices, and substantiates three main theses. The first is that the Palace of Justice events were a radio- and television-broadcasted dispersed tragedy that affected the lives of actors from different social sectors and regions of Colombia, who have launched since 1985 multiple memorial initiatives in different fields of culture, thereby contributing to the formation and intergenerational transmission of a widespread cultural trauma. The second is that the narrative and visual representations at the core of that trauma express a vast universe of local representational traditions that can be traced at least until the early 20th century, and therefore preexists the so-called Colombian “memory boom”, dated to the mid-1990s. As an example of the preexistence and longstanding impact of these traditions, the local usage of the figure of “holocaust” for representing the effects of politically motivated violence is analyzed regarding the Palace of Justice events, but also traced to other representations emerged in the decade of 1920. The third thesis is that analyzing the diverse, frequently counterposed accounts of political violence elaborated within these traditions provides an opportunity to explore a wide variety of understandings of the causes and characteristics of the longstanding Colombian social and armed conflict. Keywords: Political violence, Cultural trauma, Collective Memory, Iconology, Holocaust, Colombia.

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Section: Fidel Blandón's Lo Que El Cielo No Perdona: Testimonial Lite...mentioning

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"The palace of justice Holocaust", or "The Plaza de Bolívar battle" : an anthropological contribution to the comparative analysis of memorialization of political violence in Colombia

Guerrero¹

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Argentine Catholicism During the Last Military Dictatorship: Unresolved Tensions and Tragic Outcomes

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"The palace of justice Holocaust", or "The Plaza de Bolívar battle" : an anthropological contribution to the comparative analysis of memorialization of political violence in Colombia

"The palace of justice Holocaust", or "The Plaza de Bolívar battle" : an anthropological contribution to the comparative analysis of memorialization of political violence in Colombia

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