Vikki Bell is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of numerous books, including The Art of Post-Dictatorship: Ethics and Aesthetics in Transitional Argentina.

• List of Illustrations ixAcknowledgments xvIntroduction 1Part I. Chile1. Entwined Tellings: Detention and Survival in Pinochet’s Chile 232. Paper Afterlives: On the Archive as Biopolitical Remains 51Part II. Colombia3. Colombia’s Propositions for Memory: The Spirit of the Archive 894. Negotiating the Force of Art: The Work of Erika Diettes 121Part III. Argentina5. A Critical Ecology of Practices: Forums and Their Arts of Dramatization 1516. Risking Images, After All: Art at the Espacio Memoria y Derechos Humanos, Ex-ESMA Argentina 175Conclusion 203Notes 211Bibliography 245Index 257

“Focusing on Chile, Colombia and Argentina, this outstanding book innovatively challenges the often-unreflective hope that memory can effectively serve as a bulwark against intergenerational cycles of violence. Instead, it proposes that dramatizations of the archive are central to mnemonic stewardship, understood as a curatorial and dynamic, temporally extended project. All in all, a must read for all students of political memory.”—Mihaela Mihai, author of, Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance“Vikki Bell’s prose is beautiful and fluid, and her mastery of the complex subject matter is quite striking for its empathy and humanity.”—Kaitlin M. Murphy, author of, Mapping Memory: Visuality, Affect, and Embodied Politics in the Americas

Vikki Bell is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of numerous books, including The Art of Post-Dictatorship: Ethics and Aesthetics in Transitional Argentina.

• List of Illustrations ixAcknowledgments xvIntroduction 1Part I. Chile1. Entwined Tellings: Detention and Survival in Pinochet’s Chile 232. Paper Afterlives: On the Archive as Biopolitical Remains 51Part II. Colombia3. Colombia’s Propositions for Memory: The Spirit of the Archive 894. Negotiating the Force of Art: The Work of Erika Diettes 121Part III. Argentina5. A Critical Ecology of Practices: Forums and Their Arts of Dramatization 1516. Risking Images, After All: Art at the Espacio Memoria y Derechos Humanos, Ex-ESMA Argentina 175Conclusion 203Notes 211Bibliography 245Index 257

“Focusing on Chile, Colombia and Argentina, this outstanding book innovatively challenges the often-unreflective hope that memory can effectively serve as a bulwark against intergenerational cycles of violence. Instead, it proposes that dramatizations of the archive are central to mnemonic stewardship, understood as a curatorial and dynamic, temporally extended project. All in all, a must read for all students of political memory.”—Mihaela Mihai, author of, Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance“Vikki Bell’s prose is beautiful and fluid, and her mastery of the complex subject matter is quite striking for its empathy and humanity.”—Kaitlin M. Murphy, author of, Mapping Memory: Visuality, Affect, and Embodied Politics in the Americas

Vikki Bell is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of numerous books, including The Art of Post-Dictatorship: Ethics and Aesthetics in Transitional Argentina.

• List of Illustrations ixAcknowledgments xvIntroduction 1Part I. Chile1. Entwined Tellings: Detention and Survival in Pinochet’s Chile 232. Paper Afterlives: On the Archive as Biopolitical Remains 51Part II. Colombia3. Colombia’s Propositions for Memory: The Spirit of the Archive 894. Negotiating the Force of Art: The Work of Erika Diettes 121Part III. Argentina5. A Critical Ecology of Practices: Forums and Their Arts of Dramatization 1516. Risking Images, After All: Art at the Espacio Memoria y Derechos Humanos, Ex-ESMA Argentina 175Conclusion 203Notes 211Bibliography 245Index 257

“Focusing on Chile, Colombia and Argentina, this outstanding book innovatively challenges the often-unreflective hope that memory can effectively serve as a bulwark against intergenerational cycles of violence. Instead, it proposes that dramatizations of the archive are central to mnemonic stewardship, understood as a curatorial and dynamic, temporally extended project. All in all, a must read for all students of political memory.”—Mihaela Mihai, author of, Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance“Vikki Bell’s prose is beautiful and fluid, and her mastery of the complex subject matter is quite striking for its empathy and humanity.”—Kaitlin M. Murphy, author of, Mapping Memory: Visuality, Affect, and Embodied Politics in the Americas