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Memories of the Brazilian Dictatorship
This chapter provides an overview of perceptions and attitudes toward the Brazilian dictatorship. Perspectives presented here expose the impact of...
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Looking for Heroes, I Found Conventional Workers: A Labor Community in the Argentine Dictatorship
In this chapter, the author addresses the construction of his research on the memories of a labor community about the Argentine dictatorship that...
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Catalyst: The Common Market and the Descent into Dictatorship
This chapter surveys the background to the 1967 military coup and highlights the concerns of Greek business over prospective EEC competition in the...
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Conclusions
The concluding summarizes the various arguments made throughout the book and contextualizes the Metaxas dictatorship in the interwar period. While...
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Discourses and Socio-technical Articulations
Facebook is a field of discursivity where experiences, knowledge, identity, and interactions initiated in previous mediation regimes converge and...
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Mnemonic Practices on Social Media The Brazilian Dictatorship on Facebook
This book reflects on discourses about the Brazilian dictatorship (1964-1985) on social media. It examines entanglements between technological and...
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Mnemonic Affordances and Socio-technical Practices on Facebook
The concept of affordance supports the analysis of mnemonic practices. Affordances emerge from what users perceive they can do within socio-technical...
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Introduction
In this introductory overview, the reader finds evidence of the variability of meanings involving the Brazilian dictatorship. It provides a brief...
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The Must-See Play that so Many People Staged: A Mosaic of (False) Memories
Miriam Hermeto discusses the oral histories produced about an important theater play staged in the 1970s during the Brazilian military dictatorship....
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Nursing Under the Civilian-Military Cooperation (1973–1979)
The constant search for a nursing policy, and the necessary political alliances, shifts the spotlight on the nurse not just as a professional but...
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Un scandale: Franco à l’UNESCO: The Franco Dictatorship and the Struggle for International Representation in the Social Sciences
Nicolás Sesma deals with the cultural strategies of Franco’s regime, with particular emphasis on its desire to become the sole representative of...
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Methodological Considerations and Analytical Steps
Social media analysis is a complex process, full of opportunities and challenges for capturing a representative sample of mnemonic practices and...
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Uncomfortable Stories and Tensions in the Official Memory of an Institution
In this chapter, the author reports on her involvement studying the official history of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, where she works. It...
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In the Shadow of the Proceso 1976–1983
Despite Argentina’s most recent military dictatorship (1976–1983) being of a relatively short duration, its psychological effect on Argentine society...
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Concluding Remarks
This research aimed to understand contemporary remembrance processes regarding the Brazilian dictatorship. Different and complementary mediation...
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Between Revolutions: The New Politics of Class and the Economies of Import Substitution
During the era framed by the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) and the Cuban Revolution (1959), Latin America continued to struggle with the questions...
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New Deal Liberalism and ‘Cree** Socialism’: The Republican Party and the Construction of Modern American Conservatism, c. 1933–c. 1960
The Democratic Party’s response to the Great Depression in the United States – involving the New Deal and its agenda of government activism – left...
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“Memory Does Not Quarantine”: COVID-19, Remembering the Coup, and the Struggle for Democracy in Bolsonaro’s Brazil
In February 2020, Rio de Janeiro-based memory activists were coordinating the commemoration act, “Caminhada do Silêncio” (Walk of Silence). Building...
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Memories and Media: Concepts and Practical Dimensions
In order to understand how the Brazilian dictatorship became an unsettled and disputed issue, it is essential to reflect on processes and mechanisms...