""Where Memory Dwells" is a crucial contribution to the current
debate on political violence. Macarena Gomez-Barris has researched
exhaustively on the Chilean post-dictatorship to find the deep
relationship between what happened in Chile on September 11, 1973
and what is going on today, in Chile and in the world."--Sergio
Villalobos-Ruminott, University of Arkansas
"This book offers intriguing insights on the symbolic, aesthetic,
and personal aspects of memory-making by activists, survivors, and
artists during the afterlife of the Pinochet dictatorship. The
author shows how specific cultural actors wrestle creatively with
the dilemma of how to represent experiences of atrocity that defy
our ability to know, narrate, and depict them, yet prove crucial to
the building of a democratic culture."--Steve Stern, Alberto Flores
Galindo Professor, University of Wisconsin
"Macarena Gomez-Barris takes the reader on an often personal
journey through the 'memoryscape of terror' of the Chilean
dictatorship in Chile and Chilean culture in exile. This book makes
a poignant and compelling contribution to the study of traumatic
memory in Latin America."--Marita Sturken, Professor of Media,
Culture and Communication studies, New York University
""Where Memory Dwells" offers an immensely luminous rearticulation
of the 1990s 'politics of memory' theme for the twenty-first
century. Illustrating the profound relevance of memory studies to
political theory, Gomez-Barris shows with great lucidity how the
remembering and forgetting of state terror are entwined with global
and local forces of the neoliberal economy, nationalism, and
universal human rights discourse. "Where Memory Dwells"
exemplifiesthe best efforts of a sociological approach to memory as
cultural mediation of power. It should be read by anyone interested
in the critical work that collective memory may perform for our
societies in transition."--Lisa Yoneyama, Author of "Hiroshima
Traces: Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory"
""Where Memory Dwells" is a creatively researched and exquisitely
thoughtful study of the memory of state terror as it lives and
hides in complex and politically activated cultural practices.
Gomez-Barris's exploration of how authoritarianism and social
injustice are remembered, forgotten, and redressed by nations,
citizens, and exiles is a beautiful achievement, one with an
immediate relevance for us today."--Avery F. Gordon, author of
"Ghostly Matters"
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