Material Memories: Archaeology, Heritage and Human Rights Violations in South America

在二十世纪下半叶，南方各国都遭受了军事政权的肉体和心理折磨、审查、强迫“失踪”和谋杀。这些行为留下了沉重的社会和文化创伤，学者们现在才开始理解。《物质记忆》讲述了在专制政权之后发生的复杂而高度敏感的人与物之间的纠缠，以及它们在和解过程中的作用。过去的侵犯人权行为的物质、社会和政治现实已紧密地交织在现在的结构中，并继续塑造未来，对这些侵犯人权行为进行批判性研究需要一个强有力和多方面的理论和方法框架。本项目以巴拉圭的Museo de las Memorias（前秘密拘留中心改造的博物馆）为案例研究，跨越考古学、批判性遗产研究、历史学、人类学和记忆研究等领域，提出多学科参与暴力的物质遗产，将其作为一种创造未来的实践，积极推动和解进程，并在巴拉圭、南美和更广阔的世界推动更和平、更包容的社会发展。

During the second part of the twentieth century, nations across South were subjected to military regimes that exercised physical and psychological torture, censorship, forced "disappearances" and murder. Those actions left heavy social and cultural scars that scholars are only now beginning to comprehend. Material Memories addresses the complex and highly sensitive human-object entanglements that occur in the aftermath of authoritarian regimes, and their role in processes of reconciliation. A critical study of past human rights abuses, whose material, social and political realities have been tightly woven into the fabric of the present and keep shaping the future, requires a robust and multifaceted theoretical and methodological framework. Using the Museo de las Memorias - a former secret detention centre turned museum - in Paraguay as a case study and cutting across archaeology, critical heritage studies, history, anthropology, and memory studies, this project proposes a multi-disciplinary engagement with the material legacies of violence as a future-making practice that can actively drive reconciliation processes and the development of more peaceful and inclusive societies in Paraguay, South America and the wider world.