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Multidirectionality in action: Reshaping geographies of memory in a suburb of Buenos Aires

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: In this article, we propose a model of community memory work, inspired by Michael Rothberg’s multidirectional memory and based on a research-intervention experience we carried out with teenagers in marginal areas of suburban Buenos Aires in 2022–2023. We claim that memorial community work can resignify spaces by recreating dedicated memory sites and including new spaces in a multilayered narrative of memory and future that, in essence, puts multidirectionality into action. We will start by analyzing the theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical underpinnings of “Intimate Cartographies in Community,” a research-intervention project we carried out in high schools in marginal areas of suburban Buenos Aires during the years 2022–2023 ( https://edjam.network/project/intimate-cartographies-in-community/ ) and then offer an analysis of the results.

Source: Memory Studies

DOI: 10.1177/17506980251320779

Authors: Mónica Szurmuk, Mariela Peller, Lucas Saporosi

Institutions: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, National University of General San Martín, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Language: English

Topic: Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4410125105

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