Editorial

Abstract

This third issue of Memorias Disidentes reaffirms the importance of this university-based and transnational publishing project, developed by the hard work and against the current of unstable moods and precarious times we live in, particularly in a context of the advance of the new right in Latin America and the world. In this framework, our editorial office places the editorial project of the magazine, opening questions such as: What meanings does this biannual publication project from the field of Humanities and Social Sciences acquire in this context? What role do academies and, especially, universities have in these transformations? What does it mean to think about heritage narratives from Latin America in contexts of exacerbation of violence and extractive plundering deepened by the new liberal right? What connivances and continuities between governments of a “progressive” or “national and popular” sign and neoliberal governments facilitate, in the end, the very rapid extinction of inclusive and reparative policies in the short term? What new neocolonial projects do these political projects harbor and what are their effects on bodies-territories and on research? What monuments do they erect? What memories do they tear down? What heritages do they conspire with? What work must collective memory do to build new archives sensitive to words, to emotions, to the interweaving of links in times of post-truth? How can we re-establish social coexistence in the face of clear evidence that current Latin American democratic regimes forcefully expose the aporias of great Western values ​​(“freedom,” “equality,” “justice”) exhausted in their traditional senses? What methodologies should we arm ourselves with to expose the strategies of viralization and planned control of the emotions and desires of the public behind a screen? What ephemeral identities shape these times of economic instability, social intolerance, and fulminating racist hatred?