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This chapter further explores the affective ties that are transmitted in the language of the family and the way intergenerational memories of state violence are invested with value. What happens when family legacies are political? To what extent can state violence and political violence be inherited as family legacies, and if so, what does this mean? What happens when political memories are remembered as family memories? This chapter suggests that family memories mobilize a sense of duty between generations, which may vary in its forms, ranging from sympathy to political commitment, but which nevertheless provides memory with ‘weight’.
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Jara, D. (2016). Family Memory and the Intergenerational Remembering of Political Violence. In: Children and the Afterlife of State Violence. Memory Politics and Transitional Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56328-6_4
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