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Political activism and performativity in the shaping of transnational collective memory: the case of the 43 disappeared students from Ayotzinapa Martín Diego Zícari This research project aims to analyze the performative and aesthetic appropriations made by Mexican social movements after the disappearance of the 43 students of Ayotzinapa. It will be argued that this appropriation shows that Mexican social movements do not create ex nihilo the memory that accounts for disappearances, but, on the contrary they appropriate past and present experience, reframing and re-actualizing the actions of other movements that denounced the disappearance of people in other contemporary states. In order to analyze this process, special attention will be paid to the performative actions that succeed in inscribing in a public sphere, with a decisive political reach, representations of the disappeared. To mention some of the possible actions, we will refer to the phenomenon known as the 'siluetazo', to the presence of masks in the protests mobilizations, as well as the use of close-up photographs of the face of the disappeared. In the background, we will be analyzing the way in which the naratives of memory are created in the current context of development of communications. In its chapter The Political Struggles for Memory, Elizabeth Jelin tells us 'actors and militants use the past, placing in the public sphere of debate interpretations and meanings of it. The intention is to establish / convince / transmit a narrative, which can be accepted '(2002: 39). From this theoretical framework we propose to understand the actions of Mexican social movement and student organizarion (such as the Socialist Workers' Movement, MTS or self-organizing organizations, called assemblies, all considered part of the Ayotzinapa Movement) in the context of the construction of a collective memory. This memory, intended to account for the traumatic event, is not created ex nihilo by the Mexican social movements, but they combine and re-actualize performativity and representations of other social movements. In order to carry out the proposed work plan, a thorough bibliographical research, linked to studies on memory, social movements and social inequality search was started. The revision of the written material as institutional documents and other primary sources, like websites and forums, is complemented with the information obtained in the field, contextualizing visits and interviews. The research will present an ethnographic approach using techniques such as participatory observation and in-depth interviews with members of social movements, researchers and other actors; empirical explorations in the spaces where members perform actions, and participation in areas of political and social sociability, such as community centers, open talks and any manifestation that is relevant to the case study. These instances will be a useful source of information to understand the modes of social intervention and the principles on which they are organized. In this way, this work aims to rescue the transnational and transgenerational dimension of the construction of collective memory after the traumatic event that supposes the disappearance of people, focused on the disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa, Mexico. status: published |
