About the Journal

Dissident Memories. Journal of Critical Studies on Heritage, Archives, and Memory

Editors' Chiefs

Carina Jofré, Cristóbal Gnecco, Mario Rufer

 

Dissident Memories. Journal of critical heritage studies, archives and memories is dedicated to the publication of contents related to critical heritage studies, archives and memories, and related themes within the scope of Social and Human Sciences, where undisciplined knowledge and rebellious praxis are admitted and promoted. The magazine is an online publication of free access with academic, scientific and artistic-creative quality, with a semi-annual publication regime (with 2 issues per year). It was originally launched in December 2023, and is currently publishing its issues in September and March.

Born as a project of the Red de Información y Discusión en Arqueología y Patrimonio (RIDAP) it is a publication registered in Argentina with ISSN 3008-7716. Currently the responsible institution is the Instituto de Investigaciones Socioeconómicas (IISE) of the Facultad de Sociales de la Universidad Nacional de San Juan FACSO and receives support and endorsements from the following universities: Universidad del Cauca(Colombia), UAM Xochimilco – Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Xochimilco (México) y  Universidad Nacional de Catamarca (Argentina)

History of the magazine

The editorial project of Memorias Disidentes. Revista de Estudios critiques del patrimonio, archivos y memorias was born between 2020-2022 within the framework of RIDAP (Red de Información y Discusión en Arqueología y Patrimonio), a collective of critical analysis integrated by researchers, activists, indigenous people, members of organizations and social movements and working groups interested in dismantling the modern imaginaries that construct the relationship between heritage + culture + identity + memory + territories.

The magazine was launched in December 2023 from the OJS website of the National University of San Juan with the support of three other universities located in Argentina, Colombia and Mexico. The publication frequency has been maintained with the numbers published biannually initially in June/June/July. As of September 2026, the semiannual appearance of each issue has changed (September/March). Since its beginnings, the magazine has published original contributions in thematic dossier formats and calls for proposals with free themes organized into four sections: Editorials, Academic Artículos, Institutional Lenguajes and Reseñas. From 2025 onwards, the magazine opened a Free Artículos section. At the end of the day, the magazine published 6 issues uninterruptedly:

Rastros y murmullos. Plantas y animales en memorias disonantes Vol. 3 Núm. 6 (2026)

Artesanías. Arte sensible desde los márgenes Vol. 3 Núm. 5 (2026)

Ancestros/as, cuerpos-territorios y memorias. Debates y reflexiones sobre restitución, repatriación, regreso y re-entierro de ancestros/as Vol. 2 Núm. 4 (2025)

Archivos inasibles, cuerpos disidentes, patrimonios esquivos y territorios arrasados Vol. 2 Núm. 3 (2025)

Pedestales Vacíos. Memorias disidentes: monumentos intervenidos, iconoclasias y disputas por lo público en América Latina Vol. 1 Núm. 2 (2024)

Dossier Feminismos y Extractivismos. Número Lanzamiento Vol. 1 Núm. 1 (2023)

 

Privacy statement

This magazine uses the LOCKSS system to create an archive distributed among the libraries participating in the Argentine national university system, allowing the creation of permanent archives of the magazine for preservation and restoration purposes. El IDECOM de la UNSJ https://www.idecom.unsj.edu.ar/quienes-somos/ carries out technical support and biennial backup of the magazine's files hosted on the OJS UNSJ website. Likewise, the magazine archives final products in PDF format in the RIDAP Repository https://www.ridap.org/ The magazine allows self-archiving in institutional digital repositories and any other type of articles in all formats (manuscript, preprint and postprint).

 

Focus and scope of the Magazine

Heritage narratives in Latin America accompany an extended series of policies that use a varied vocabulary on rescue, conservation, putting value and socialization of heritage. These narratives have been codified in disciplinary languages ​​with notorious legitimacy: anthropology, archeology, history and sociology among others, participating in the patrimonial spectrum with different tones.

​The editorial proposal of RIDAP starts from the need to question the apparent neutrality of these narratives and proposes in the patrimonial field as what Michel Foucault called a “polyhedron of intelligibility”: not as an evident concept but as a problem that calls to undo the elements of knowledge, power, authority and differentiation that their languages ​​enable. Why in recent decades have established powers shown so much interest in heritage narratives? What are the possible relationships between the patrimonial field and the political economy of the contemporary world? How do heritage languages ​​(visual, sonorous, disciplinary, artistic, poetic, corporeal languages) participate in a tense and often contradictory way in the conformation of our vernacular modernities? How do the disruptive plans of feminisms help to re-imagine bodies, subjects, forms of extraction and accumulation in the patrimonial field?

Heritages are proposed, generally and from State powers or national and transnational cultural agencies, as a field of identity consolidation that stabilizes the semantic value of “the common” in classifications such as tangible cultural objects, material culture, intangible expressions, etc. How to approach this field if we consider the relationship between heritage, archive and memory, and the latter as an occasion that can break with the stabilizing languages ​​of history? How can we do it if we propose the “common value” as a field in dispute constituted by lack, by inequality, by colonial violence that is perpetuated and by exclusions that are reissued?

At the moment in which this magazine proposes itself, it seems necessary to unravel the plot that unites the fixation and consolidation of instituted heritage with extractive and constant accumulation processes, as well as with figures and languages ​​of resistance, recomposition of memory and occasions for institutional and insurgent thoughts. This act of unraveling faces us with notable challenges in terms of language, method, and theoretical construction: we require imaginations of montage (more than linear narratives that mimic State policies), critical languages ​​of modern coloniality, inclusive and questioning methodologies of epistemic extractivisms, as well as planning open questions and the construction of objects traditionally considered illegitimate for academic research.

For the above, the magazine proposes to consolidate two central languages: one that forms the “Academic Section” in which we intend to dispute some of the questions raised here in the format of research articles, and the "Section of Institutional Languages" from which short contributions are called for with other visual and sound supports, poetry, essays and the spectrum of artistic sensibilities in general, which cover from their narrative matrices the ideas that each number proposes. The last section calls for reviews of books, theses and events.

Thematic Issues of Interest in the Magazine

Heritage and memories: tensions, illuminations, dissonances
Contemporary extractivisms: territories of looting and languages ​​of survival
Feminisms and heritage field: bodies, violence, dissent.
Vernacular ontologies: naturalness, culture(s) and criticism of modern dissections
Heritage, territoriality, landscapes: between tourism, reservation and extraction.
Cultural heritage and significance: social murmur and silenced reports.
Heritage and exhibition complex: museums, exhibitions and modern/colonial disputes.
Global designs and situated narratives: heritage between “humanity” and “community”.
Heritage and coloniality: modern remains between ruin and ruin.
Critical methodologies: extraction, horizontality, collaboration and co-authorship.
Heritage, State, communities: regulations, restitutions, rituals and forms of management.
The languages ​​of heritage: disciplines, undisciplined narratives and power.
Archive and archiving: languages, supports, authority

Arbitration system for the Memorias Disidentes Magazine

 

Reviewer responsibilities
Evaluate the texts that you accept in an objective and propositional way. Carry out an explicit dictation based on the knowledge you have of the topic. Your argument must be clear, avoiding adjectives in its contents. Evaluate the work within a period equal to at least 20 days so as not to hinder editorial work or harm other authors; If not, inform the magazine in due course. Do not disseminate or use the content of the work that has been sent to you, which has a confidential character until it is not published. Inform the editors if you identify plagiarism practices or AI abuse without following the magazine's recommendations see: Editorial and linguistic policy | Dissident memories. Journal of critical heritage studies, archives and memories

 

Article evaluation instances: Academic Section and Free Articles


These contributions will receive the following types of evaluations: First, an internal evaluation of the Editorial Board from which the relevance of the submission will be determined. The editors reserve the right to reject contributions sent if they do not comply with minimum quality requirements, if they exceed the maximum length established for each category, if they are not unprecedented results of investigations or in situations of ethical conflict (Ej. cases of contributions that have been rejected in other instances of evaluation by peers and committees scientific-academic research which has been the subject of complaints). The editors' decision will be final and will not authorize a reply.
If the article successfully passes the internal review stage, at least one of the (2) external evaluators who examine the manuscript in the Double Ciego System (With Anonymous Reviewer / Anonymous Author) will be selected. These evaluators will be experts in the thematic area linked to the article recommended by Editors in charge, with assistance from the Executive Council and the International Advisory Council of the magazine.
I have to receive the dictamenes from the external evaluators, the editors in charge carry out a consolidation of the dictamenes received, which will be sent later to the author(s) through communications in charge of the Executive Secretariat of the magazine.
If the contribution is accepted by external evaluators, the authors have up to 20 days to make the necessary corrections. After this period has passed without a response or justification for its delay being received, the article will be considered as withdrawn.
When the revised version is sent by the author, the editors will check whether the changes requested by the evaluators have been made, and can request changes again in this instance.
Once the full version of the modifications requested in the dictation process is obtained, the article will go to the style review stage where it will again be subject to corrections and observations by the magazine's Style Review Team and under the coordination of the editors in charge. Style revisions will be sent to the author suggesting adjustments to the magazine's standards and style manual in a public address within 20 days. After this period has passed without a response or justification for its delay being received, the article will be considered as withdrawn.
Finally, once the final version is obtained, the article will be sent as a model of the final galleries. At this stage, visas and revisions for missing or persistent errors in the final version are also required before publication. This stage is supervised by the Magazine Design Team and editors in charge.
In specific cases, if the authors requesting an article can be removed from the workflow of an issue, in such a case, the due request must be sent to the Journal's Executive Secretariat via the journal's official mail memodisidente@gmail.com

 

Instances for evaluating contributions: Sección de Lenguajes Instituyentes and Reseñas
These contributions will receive the following types of evaluations: First, an internal evaluation of the Editorial Board from which the relevance of the submission will be determined. The editors reserve the right to reject contributions sent if they do not comply with minimum quality requirements, if they exceed the maximum length established for each category, if they are not unprecedented results of investigations or in situations of ethical conflict (Ej. cases of contributions that have been rejected in other instances of evaluation by peers and committees scientific-academic research which has been the subject of complaints). The editors' decision will be definitive and will not authorize a reply.


If the contribution successfully passes the internal review stage, it begins an evaluation in an Open System (with anonymous reviewer / public author). For this purpose, at least one of the (2) external evaluators will be selected, one may be part of the journal's advice if its knowledge and expertise in the field of knowledge or theme is justified. The distribution of these evaluations will be in charge of the Section Editor and will be considered together with the editors in charge of this issue. In these cases, evaluation is not only of a formal nature, but rather pursues aesthetic, artistic and creative criteria that require an evaluation system suited to each case and the objectives of the sections.
I have to receive the dictamenes from the external evaluators, the editors in charge carry out a consolidation of the dictamenes received, which will be sent later to the author(s) through communications in charge of the Executive Secretariat of the magazine.
If the contribution is accepted by external evaluators, the authors have up to 20 days to make the necessary corrections and modifications. After this period has passed without a response or justification for its delay being received, the article will be considered as withdrawn.
When the revised version is sent by the author, the editors will check whether the changes requested by the evaluators have been made, and can request changes again in this instance.
Once the full version of the modifications requested in the dictation process is obtained, the article will go to the style review stage where it will again be subject to corrections and observations by the magazine's Style Review Team and under the coordination of the editors in charge. Style revisions will be sent to the author suggesting adjustments to the magazine's standards and style manual in a public address within 20 days. After this period has passed without a response or justification for its delay being received, the article will be considered as withdrawn.
Finally, once the final version is obtained, the article will be sent to be modeled. At this stage, visas and revisions for missing or persistent errors in the final version are also required. This stage is supervised by the Magazine Design Team and editors in charge.
In specific cases, if the authors request a contribution that can be withdrawn from the work flow of an issue, in such a case, the due request must be sent to the Executive Secretariat of the Magazine via the official mail of the magazine memodisidente@gmail.com

 

General parameters for external review:

La Revista Memorias Disidentes requests that evaluators of the Doble Ciego System respond, as a minimum, to the following questions:

  • Is the work an original and relevant contribution to the specific topic you analyze?
  • How do you evaluate the writing and structure of the article?
  • What is your appreciation of the methodology and sources used in the article?
  • What is the quality and adequacy of bibliographic references?
  • Do you have comments for lxs editorxs? (bell). Extend your response

The recommendations can be as follows:

  • Accept it without asking for any changes or making suggestions.
  • Accept it without substantive changes. It is recommended that you consider some of the suggestions listed in the previous points. No future external evaluations of the article will be necessary.
  • To accept it conditionally, the work will have to be reviewed in accordance with the suggestions made. The supervision of these exchanges will be the responsibility of the Editorial Board.
  • To accept it conditionally, the work will have to be reviewed in accordance with the suggestions made.
  • Rejected. In this case, it is necessary to explain in a clear and well-founded way the reasons for rejection.


Based on this, the magazine will only consider for its acceptance those manuscripts that obtain any combinations that arise from categories 1 to 4. In the event that there are differences in criteria between the peer reviewers, a new review round will be carried out incorporating new reviewers that allow them to decide on editorial quality and academic handwritten dicho. In all cases, the final decision will be made by the Editors Responsibles of the Magazine and Editors in charge of the issue, and their decision will be definitive.

 

Conflicts of interest

The evaluators will be required to:

-Inform if you are not qualified to evaluate the topic of the work, or in the event that your evaluation represents a conflict of interests or there is some reasonable reason not to publish the manuscript.

-Decline evaluation if you belong to the same institution (institute, department, dependency) from which the original was sent. If this condition is not justified, you must provide reasons.

-Decline evaluation if you have previously or currently served as director of the author's thesis or are currently director of those who send the original.

 

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