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Revista pueblos y fronteras digital
On-line version ISSN 1870-4115
Abstract
VILLELA RAMOS, Miguel Ángel. Toward the Configuration of a Nation with Democracy: A Comparative Analysis of Sites of Memory of Student Movements in El Salvador and Mexico. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2014, vol.9, n.18, pp.62-80. ISSN 1870-4115. https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2014.18.23.
This paper describes how the student movements in El Salvador and Mexico perform annual commemorations of the massacres they suffered and explains why it is so important for them to continue the memory of the «martyrs». It also shows how these commemorations seek to configure projects of nation.
Keywords : sites of memory; historical memory; ritual; student movements; subaltern groups; projects of nation.