Submerged memories: Neighborhood networks in the Mendoza of the seventies

Authors

Patricia Chaves (ed)

Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina

Laura Rodríguez Agüero (ed)

Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina

Alejandro Paredes (ed)

Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina

Keywords: Neighborhoods, Mendoza, Seveties

Synopsis

The city forms a communication space and can be read as a message. As Walter Benjamin said, under the present cities "buried stories are revealed", metaphors bearing memories. The Mendoza that we are trying to unveil contradicts the usual metaphors of a “nap” city and digs into a history viewed “from below”, “from its networks”, “from its popular neighborhoods”.
It is a story of networks of spatialized militancies in neighborhoods. The spatiality and memory in the Mendoza of the seventies allow both demystifying and critically reconstructing the recent local past.
This approach puts the focus on the foundation processes of local militancies in the context of political activation between 1969 and 1976.

Chapters

I. Militant networks and territory
II. Neighborhood educational and cultural militancies
III. Chilean political practices in Mendoza
IV. Sources

Author Biographies

Patricia Chaves, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina

History Professor (UNCUYO), Magister in Didactics (UBA). Titular Professor of Argentine Social History II of the Degree in Sociology (UNCUYO).

Laura Rodríguez Agüero, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina

History Professor (UNCUYO), Magister in Didactics (UBA). Titular Professor of Argentine Social History II of the Degree in Sociology (UNCUYO).

Alejandro Paredes, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina

Bachelor of Sociology (UNCUYO) and Doctor of History (UNLP), Adjunct Researcher at CONICET.