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@article{ Mendoza Garcia2005, title = {Exordio a la memoria colectiva y el olvido social}, author = {Mendoza Garcia, Jorge}, journal = {Athenea Digital: Revista de Pensamiento e Investigacion Social}, number = {8}, pages = {1-26}, year = {2005}, urn = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-64508}, abstract = {This is a discussion of the cultural roles that memory & forgetting play in society. The article argues that remembrance & oblivion are in constant social conflict. Thus, memory & forgetting are not exclusively individual phenomena, but are to be found in society as a whole. It was not well understood in the twentieth century that memory & forgetting are opposites of the same collective force. Indeed, societal forces guide collective memory even as language sustains it. In the opposite sense, censorship, oppression, & silence work against collective memory, resulting in social forgetfulness. Taken together, social memory & social forgetfulness can be said to provide a culture with its distinctive presences & absences. Thus, the relational stress between remembering & forgetting is one of the prime building blocks of society.}, }