Children and the Afterlife of State Violence

Daniela Jara is currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile, and Adjunct Researcher at El Centro de Estudios de Conflicto y Cohesión Social (COES), Chile, investigating the cultural representations of perpetrators during the post-dictatorship in Chile. She received her PhD in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, in 2014. Previously, she published “A propósito del Museo de la Memoria: El debate de los historiadores y el uso reflexivo de la historia” in Revista Observatorio Cultural, and “The aftermath of violence: The Post-coup second generation in Chile” in Peripheral Memories: Public and Private Forms of Experiencing and Narrating the Past.

• 1. When the Past Matters.- 2. The Culture of Fear and its Afterlife.- 3. Political Stigmas and Family Legacies.- 4. Family Memory and the Intergenerational Remembering of Political Violence.- 5. Family Counter memories.- 6. Concluding Remarks.