“As an Unhealed Wound”: Memory and Justice in Post-Dictatorship Uruguay

Abstract

Violent and harrowing, Uruguay’s recent past left in its wake a severely injured and fragmented social body, as well as deep, open wounds (Viñar and Ulriksen de Viñar 1993; De Giorgi 2010). After the country’s return to political democracy, a struggle between remembering and forgetting that past was lodged in the heart of Uruguayan society. The public space was turned into the stage where the dilemmas of memory were played out.