Urbanities,
Vol. 3
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No 2
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November 2013
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industrialization accelerates. It highlights the role of urban social movements in the divergent
evolution of the image policies in both cities, as Roubaix briefly considers the conversion of
its economy towards advanced services while Sheffield becomes the symbol of the struggle of
the North with the economic restructuring promoted by the national government. Finally, the
third section on the “entrepreneurialisation of urban policies” offers to subdivide the post-
Fordist era into two sub-periods: early, then late urban entrepreneurialism. The evolution of
the image policies, their production and their targets (from firms with high labor requirements
to real estate development, the “creative class” and tourists) results from the continuous
decline of the industry in the economic base of both cities, from the fragmentation of the
working class and from the closer collaboration of the urban governments with the private
interests since the early 1980’s.
In 2012,
Dr
Max Rousseau
’s
Doctoral Dissertation was awarded the first prise for the best
dissertation in the field of urban studies by the Association pour la promotion de l'enseignement et de
la recherche en aménagement et urbanisme, the Centre d'études sur les réseaux, les transports,
l'urbanisme et les constructions publiques, the Fédération nationale des agences d’urbanisme and the
Plan urbanisme, construction et architecture.
Name:
Liliana Lopes Sanjurjo
Institution
: Philosophy and Human Sciences Institute (IFCH) at
State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) – Brazil
.
Awarded
: 2013, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) – Brazil
Skype Name:
lilisanjurjo
Blood, Identity and Truth: Memories of the Dictatorial Past in Argentina
Based on a 12-months fieldwork in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, this research
investigates the political activism of the Argentinean human rights organizations composed of
the families of the disappeared people in the military dictatorship (1976-1983). It is central to
this thesis to understand the social processes that lead these organizations to play a major role
in the construction of the memories concerning the dictatorial past, as well as analysing the
disputes over the definition of a public memory about the dictatorship in this national space.
From a processual perspective of culture, I analyse how the family members of the
disappeared people, anchored in the kinship relations with the victims of the repression, give
meaning to their own identities and experiences, whilst finding social legitimacy for their
political actions. This research reveals in what measure the kinship relations has been
operating as a key resource in the processes of political legitimation in Argentina, and how
the blood is converted into a critical instrument when affirming the
Truth
about the dictatorial
past. Besides, this work also seeks to understand the political struggles that have the juridical
field as their
locus,
and the strategies performed by the families movement of the disappeared
people to provide legitimacy for penal liability for the agents of the State accused of violating
human rights.
