Simonetto, P. orcid.org/0000-0001-5906-7072 and Butierrez, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-4967-0676 (2023) The archival riot: Travesti/Trans* audiovisual memory politics in twenty-first-century Argentina. Memory Studies, 16 (2). pp. 280-295. ISSN 1750-6980
Abstract
This article analyzes the making of travesti/trans* memory politics in Argentina. Focused on audiovisual initiatives, archives, catalogs, novels, and digital activism, it studies how these policies emerged in the wider context of the archival and digital turn. While placing the dialogues with Argentine centrality of memory in social conflict and Latin American archival grassroots politics, this text addresses the role of remembrance in the production of travesti/trans* identity. This article argues that trans* memory initiatives acted as politics of belonging that worked in two levels: defining the limits of a common identitarian past, and reaching a wider cisgender audience to highlight the social violence that defined travesti/trans’ precarious lives. This article shows how by placing travesti/trans* memories in tension with national retelling of the past, they are building politics of belonging to legitimate their claims of social reparation to make new trans* futures possible.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2022. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | archive; Argentina; digital activism; grassroot organization; Latin America; memory politics; queer; social movement; trans |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 01 Feb 2024 11:58 |
Last Modified: | 01 Feb 2024 11:58 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/17506980211073099 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:208559 |