Places and pasts: rethinking spatialization process of Afro memories in Argentina

Abstract

Based on the visibilization of afrodescendants and african migrants in Argentina we inquire about the places of the production process of the subaltern memories as political and identity projects. More specifically, we consider that the disputes for recognition and equality take place, in large part, in memories field being that the identification of the subjects as “Afros” require of the process of the past reconstruction that unify and legitimase origins, trajectories and therefore, that authorize demands in the present. For this paper we explore how Afrodescendants and African inmigrants collective use, negotiate and appropiate of the spaces historically used to fix, reproduce and transmit the official narrative, posicionating ways of subaltern remembering inside of or in dispute to the hegemonic narrative. For this purpose we count on the ethnographic fieldwork made in differents acts, in particular, the conmemorative acts.