About us

This project is a collaboration between disciplines: Gender and Queer Studies, Literary and Latin American Studies and Anthropology. It unites the main interests of the three participants: a) the ongoing and often sexualized violence of postdictatorial societies, and the ways in which memory is kept alivethrough performance and cultural representation b) the way space shapes power relations and social practice, and c) the materiality of ruins as experienced and lived rather than mere metaphors of the past. At the same time, this project also aims to be an experimental reflection on methodology. We will use ethnographic and theoretical tools not only to bring out the material we will then analyze, but also to ask about the possibilities and limitations these methodologies bring to the study of ruins and the city.