Memoria histórica, ciudadanía y crisis moral de la esfera pública. Chile a 40 años del golpe militar de 1973

• Main Author: Graciela Rubio
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Veracruzana 2014-07-01
• Series: Clivajes: Revista de Ciencias Sociales
• Online Access: http://clivajes.uv.mx/index.php/Clivajes/article/view/252/1996

This paper exposes the route and the discussion of public policies on the historical memory, developed in Chile during the period 1990-2013. From a hermeneutic analysis, emphasizes how the policies relating to the memory of the experience dictatorship (1973-1990) have been built from oligarchic visions of the public and the citizenship, in order to consolidate the transitional democracy in the 1990s. In such circumstances, the public debate is imposed categories such as forgiveness and reconciliation, in an interpretive framework of the recent past that disclaimer to the political class, consolidated the inequities and also a weak citizenship with respect to their past and present. The path of the policies of the memory, to 40 years of the military coup, is evidence of the crisis of the narrative on the memory and the established democracy ―a narrative exposed as claim citizen, of ethical consistency, to those who have had the political responsibility of building it―, at the time that sets forth an opening toward the past as a source of legitimization of citizens' rights.