Museus e memórias da repressão e da resistência no Brasil: um estudo sobre documentos, justiça de transição e os espaços de rememoração

Abstract

In several countries in the context of recent history, events such as the Holocaust, Apartheid, 9/11, and the dictatorial periods in Latin America have generated an obligation of accountability to the past mainly through the need to demarcate the materiality of these events in space with the creation of places of memory. The emergence of museums and memorials that deal with memories of repression and resistance in the dictatorial contexts of the Latin American countries of the Southern Cone, follows this global context in which we observe the creation of an increasing number of information and memory institutions that adopt the local causes regarding human rights as the main issue of its institutional mission. The general objective of this thesis was to analyze the emergence of museum institutions in contexts of transitional justice with a focus on the Brazilian reality. In this direction, the instruments that guide the establishment of a policy of memory, truth and reparation in the country were selected as the object of analysis, having as centrality the creation of memory spaces related to the period of the military dictatorship that took place in Brazil between the years 1964-1985. At the empirical level, the guidelines of the National Human Rights Programs and the final reports of the truth commissions created in the national territory were selected as a documentary corpus. As a theoretical framework, the concepts of information, memory, human rights and transitional justice were adopted in their relations with the establishment of these institutions mainly when considering these spaces as tools for the intercrossing between the individual memories of these events and the construction of a collective or public memory about them.