Abstract:
This paper aims to discuss the memorialization processes that took place in Brazil as part of the transitional justice and public memory policies process. Such processes, as we shall see, are marked by a non-linear, contentious trajectory, and crossed by a tangle of actors, both in the State and in the movements that operate in the Memory, Truth and Justice field, responsible for the promotion of changes in the “structures of political opportunities”. To this end, we will illuminate two of these memorialization processes, currently underway, through the experiences of the former 1st Army Armored Infantry Battalion (1st BIB), in Barra Mansa (RJ), and Marighella’s House, in Salvador (BA).
Keywords:
Public Policies of Memory; Sites of Memory of the Dictatorship; Brazilian Civil-Military Dictatorship