Memorias disidentes. Revista de estudios críticos del patrimonio, archivos y memorias

The Dissident Memories Journal is a biannual journal published for the first time in December 2023. Born as a project of the Information and Discussion Network in Archaeology and Heritage (RIDAP for its acronym in Spanish), it is a journal dedicated to the treatment of topics related to critical studies of heritage, archives and memories, and related topics, where undisciplined knowledge and rebellious practices are admitted and promoted. It is a publication registered in Argentina with ISSN 3008-7716 and published at the Institute of Socioeconomic Research (IISE) of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the National University of San Juan.

The Dissident Memories Journal declares that all published content is evaluated with academic quality and reviewed to detect plagiarism. Published contents respect the intellectual property rights of third parties. The journal maintains its commitment to Open Access policies to scientific information, considering that both scientific publications and publicly funded research should circulate on the Internet freely, free of charge and without restrictions. The journal does not charge any type of fee to the authors for the publication of articles. Access to all of its content in the electronic version is free, and there are no embargoes. Therefore, all of the journal's content is freely available, and the publications are licensed under a Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0.

Dossier: murmurs and traces: plants and animals in dissonant memories

2025-06-04

We invite papers, essays, and studies that may be collaborative or solely authored, as long as they converse with plants and animals to tell history and memorialize. We expect texts written by many authors (not to say by several hands) and with diverse ramifications. We must respond to the intricate nature of life, which is remade in fits and starts. The social sciences have recorded these histories in which plants and animals appear as props of memory, but they have not paused to consider them with sufficient generosity. We are living in a moment of life crisis in which everything seems to be monoculture, agro-industrial writing, or suddenly grown and insubstantial meat: where the world of life seems to have been reduced to the genetic combinations that standardize the landscape and food. We believe it is necessary to pay attention to them and take them seriously, to see if we can converse with them so that we can hear and see in different ways.

Life can remake itself in creative and generous compositions and is always telling a history. Surely, to have become so diverse, it required the existence of many different memories. What are these more-than-human memories that we can recognize in the traces and murmurs of the dead leaves? For this issue of Memorias disidentes we hope to offer contributions that will help us recognize the varied forms of life that spread in murmurs and leave traces.

Coordinadorxs:

Laura Guzmán Peñuela (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)

Luis Alberto Suárez Guava (Universidad de Caldas)

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS OPENING DATE: 01/09/2025

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS CLOSING DATE: 06/02/2026

Crafts: sensitive art from the margins

2024-09-18

En un mundo herido en que los seres humanos tenemos serias responsabilidades en la situación de precariedad en la que hemos colocado el futuro de numerosas especies compañeras, el hacer artesanal atiende (escucha, responde y transmite) los susurros del entorno natural y social (de la biodiversidad y de la diversidad sociocultural), realizando un trabajo de hilvanado intergeneracional que nos obliga a (re)pensar el
tiempo, el espacio, la trascendencia, la estética y la ética... toda (nuestra) existencia en múltiples escalas.

Editoras: Roxana Amarilla y Patricia Dreidemie
Colaboradora: Ivana Salemi

RECEPCIÓN DE CONTRIBUCIONES hasta el 30 de agosto 2025.

Vol 2 No 4 (2025): Ancestors, Bodies-Territories, and Memories. Debates and reflections on restitution, repatriation, return, and reburial of ancestors

In this issue of the Memorias Disidentes Journal, we address the processes of repatriation, restitution, return, and/or reburial of ancestors to their territories of origin, to promote reflection and debate based on experiences developed in different contexts and situations. We also propose to complexify perspectives and approaches to key concepts such as: bodies/bodies-territories, repatriation, restitution, reburial, redignification, depatrimonialization, and other associated concepts. For several decades, different processes of returning and reburial of ancestors to their resting places have been generated worldwide, in response to demands promoted by various Indigenous movements and activism. In South America in particular, this issue has developed unevenly across countries, apparently motivated by the predominance, in some contexts, of persistent colonial relations that inhibit and render invisible Indigenous agencies and rights enshrined in international standards. However, in recent decades, this issue has begun to gain momentum in some countries in the region, while in others it has deepened, becoming central to some ethnopolitical agencies of various Indigenous Peoples. In this context, with this dossier, we hope to broaden the scope of this topic by providing new examples and discussing the interplay of other variables that intersect in the development of repatriation, restitution, return, and/or reburial of ancestors.

Published: 2025-07-31

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