Festival de la memoria: comunicación y memoria para la reparación simbólica de la universidad de córdoba

Abstract

This research approaches the communication processes, that has been developed in the Festival de la Memoria Initiative, held at the University of Córdoba, and its contribution to the symbolic measures on a process of collective reparation. From this scope, communication for the social change is considered as an interpretative key in the construction of collective memory. This work aims to approach the festivals developed since the 2014, focusing on the 2017 festival´s edition. The outcomes allow to establish a link between processes of communication, initiatives of historical memory and symbolic reparation for individual in the collective reparation; pointing out that communicating is not a passive process, but it passes through an act of recognition of those who transmit or issue the message, showing power struggles and legitimacy; sometimes to represent the past. Therefore, construction of the historical memory, requires alternative communication processes, in which can be said through alternative ways, that help construct the memory; on this case, based on the armed conflict that took placed in Cordoba, to achieve a symbolic reparation. Communication processes, within the framework of collective symbolic reparations, legitimize discursive devices aim to mobilize and make social changes, since they can promote a way for the enforceability of rights in processes of the realization of victims’ rights to the truth, justice, reparations and non-recurrence, since it visualizes the memory exercises beyond a placebo in society, sharing identities of the collective processes.