Revista de Estudios sobre Genocidio

Editorial

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Editorial al volumen 21

Diplomacia cultural alemana en la Argentina durante el Tercer Reich (1930–1945)

2026-05-01T17:05:32+00:00

El presente artículo analiza los vínculos culturales entre Alemania y Argentina durante el período comprendido entre el ascenso del nacionalsocialismo y el fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. A partir de fuentes diplomáticas, de prensa y cinematográficas, se reconstruyen las estrategias de proyección cultural del Tercer Reich y las mediaciones locales que permitieron su recepción en los sectores nacionalistas argentinos. El texto propone leer la política cultural alemana en la Argentina no solo como un instrumento de propaganda exterior, sino como parte de un entramado transnacional en el que actores locales –intelectuales, diplomáticos, miembros de la colectividad germana y grupos católicos nacionalistas– ocuparon un rol activo. En este marco, se examinan los casos de Matías Sánchez Sorondo y Juan Carlos Goyeneche, cuyas misiones y viajes oficiales a Alemania constituyeron espacios de articulación ideológica y política en torno al hispanismo, la identidad católica y el anticomunismo.

Destroying to Forget

2026-05-01T17:06:06+00:00

This article examines spatial erasure as a deliberate strategy used by totalitarian regimes to conceal atrocities, evade accountability, and silence acts of resistance. Through a comparative analysis of the Holocaust and Argentina’s last military dictatorship (1976-1983), this study focuses on the destruction of the Treblinka II extermination camp and the clandestine detention center Mansión Seré. In both cases, demolition followed moments of defiance that exposed cracks in totalitarian control: the 1943 revolt of Sonderkommando prisoners at Treblinka and the 1978 escape of four detainees from Mansión Seré. These ruptures compelled perpetrators to destroy physical evidence to preserve the illusion of complete domination.

Grounded in Raphael Lemkin’s understanding of genocide as an assault on both human life and the cultural and historical foundations of group existence, this article situates spatial destruction within broader debates on memory, history, and state violence. By comparing Nazi efforts to level Treblinka with the Argentine military’s dynamiting of Mansión Seré, it reveals transnational and transgenerational patterns of erasure and their enduring consequences for truth, justice, reparations, and memory.

Framed around the 80th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials and the 40th anniversary of Argentina’s Trial of the Juntas, this study argues that recovering and preserving demolished sites of terror is essential for resisting the totalitarian impulse to “destroy to forget.” Drawing on biopolitical theory and memory studies, it highlights the centrality of spatial memory to commemoration, accountability, and the long-term struggle against enforced oblivion.

Injerencia y autonomía

2026-05-01T17:06:43+00:00

This article describes the establishment of a counterinsurgency infrastructure in El Salvador in the early 1960s by the United States, in contrast to the repressive strategy implemented during the administration of the Salvadoran president General Julio A. Rivera (1962-1967), coinciding with a favorable economic period and a certain political opening.

To this end, a series of declassified documents from U.S. agencies were analysed. Their level of thoroughness and detail shed light on some of the conclusions drawn from the specialized literature.

Memory and Performativity: narativity and somatics for thinking beyond violence

2026-05-01T17:07:21+00:00

The field of memory is configured as a contested space that, in Latin America, emerges strongly determined by serious human rights violations in its history. This article proposes conceptual tools to address the work of memory, defining it as a performative production in whose unfolding two registers are recognized: narrative memory (stories and discourses) and somatic memory (bodies and practices refractory to language).

From a perspective of situated thinking in the Chilean context, it is argued that this analytical distinction enriches the understanding of the battles of memory. The analysis focuses on the social uprising of 2019, where the emergence of somatic memory, evidenced in the co-presence and repertoire of collective action in the streets, confronted and challenged the narrative of Chile's “exemplary transition.” By articulating performativity, narrativity, and somatics, the article illuminates new nuances of the problem of memory, setting coordinates for thinking about an ethics and a politics founded on the affirmation of life, beyond the limits of violence.

Teatro, democracia y dictadura en Argentina

2026-05-01T17:07:55+00:00

With almost 30% of the century under non-democratic governments, theatrical poetics organized different modalities of resistance and resilience that involved several actors. In the first instance we will refer to the Workers' Theatre and Anarchist Theatre in connection with the Patriotic Fraud and the Tragic Week. In a second instance we will think about Independent theater as a modality of political linkage within the framework of the Uriburu dictatorship. In the third instance we will refer to a micropoetics of the new professional theater, The Blacksmith and the Devil, to think about the recursiveness of theater as an epistemological metaphor, twinned with the coup d'état against the second Peronist government. Our fourth example will be related to militant theater and the Octubre group, to then think about the emblematic case of Teatro Abierto and the last Argentine military dictatorship. Finally, we will analyze community theater as a link between the resistance of the de facto government and productivity during democracy; and the case of Teatro x la Identidad as a theatrical experience of the twenty-first century that draws on the heritage of the twentieth century.

Prácticas transformistas contemporáneas como parte de la supervivencia travesti-trans-no binaria en Buenos Aires

2026-05-01T17:08:28+00:00

Contemporary drag practices in Buenos Aires carry a political dimension in at least two ways. First, their very existence challenges the sex-gender order imposed by the heteronormative matrix, creating identities that disrupt and resist it. Second, many performances—staged in parties, contests, and other cultural spaces—explicitly engage with political slogans and themes. This paper approaches drag practices from the perspectives of theater and gender studies, framing them as part of the sex-gender dissident community in order to revisit the impact of Argentina’s last civil-ecclesiastical-military dictatorship on this collective. It traces the specific forms of violence inflicted on the community during the dictatorship and argues that certain repressive logics persisted well into the democratic period. The analysis focuses on the performances of drag artists Armando A. Bruno, Claudia Fuego and La Kalo, examining how their artistic strategies rework and signify this history of violence. Ultimately, the paper proposes that contemporary drag practices can be read as exercises in memory that link performance to recent history, while also highlighting the differentiated forms of violence endured by the travesti-trans-non-binary community.

Reseña del libro Desovillando la Historia

2026-05-01T17:09:06+00:00

Reseña del libro Desovillando la historia de María Adela Antokoletz

Mujeres altar

2026-05-01T17:09:40+00:00

Documental realizado por el Colectivo Salvadoreñxs Construyendo Memoria.

Sobre los autores

2026-05-01T17:10:18+00:00

Bios de los autores del volumen