Memories of a world crisis
| Autor: | Ismael Hernández, Mats Burström, Tomás Diez Acosta, Jesús M. Pajón, Estrella González Noriega, Bengt Westergaard, Anders Gustafsson, Håkan Karlsson, Jesús Rafael Robaina Jaramillo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Social Archaeology. 9:295-318 |
| ISSN: | 1741-2951 1469-6053 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1469605309337884 |
| Popis: | Santa Cruz de los Pinos is a small town like most others in the Cuban countryside. But half a century ago it was the epicenter of the 1962 Missile Crisis. During that time it served as a Soviet base for middle-range nuclear missiles, and the US air reconnaissance photos of it were spread through media all around the world. The crisis was solved through negotiations without Cuban involvement, and as a result of this neglect the Missile Crisis has been an under-communicated part of history in Cuba. A Swedish—Cuban research project has now investigated what kinds of memories of the crisis remain today at the former missile base — in the ground as well as in people’s minds. Digging in the ground has proved to be an effective way to start a remembering process and to help disarm a politically loaded history and uncover stories other than those dominating ‘big history’. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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