"If a Woman Goes Forward, No Man Backs Away": Memories of Women in Territorial Movements During the Nineties in Argentina. Testimonies and Archives in a Memoria Abierta Collection

Abstract

The Second International Conference El lugar del archivo de las violencias de Estado: reorganizaciones del poder bajo el neoliberalismo (The Place of State Violence Archives: Reorganizations of Power Under Neoliberalism) took place on September 2, 3, 9 and 10, 2021. It was organized by the Research Project “Tecnologías Políticas de la memoria: usos y apropiaciones contemporáneas de artefactos de registro de la violencia política" (Political Technologies of Memory: contemporary uses and reappropriations of artifacts that record political violence), from Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Chile), the Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos (Memory and Human Rights Museum) in Chile, and the Universidad Austral de Chile. Institutions such as Memoria Abierta (Open Memory), from Argentina, the research group “Representaciones contemporáneas de perpetración de crímenes de masas" (Contemporary Representations of the Perpetration of Mass Crimes), from Spain, and the “Núcleo Milenio Arte, Performatividad y Activismo” (Millennium Art, Performativity, and Activism Group), from Chile. In the context of its panel "Activismos y registros feministas" (Activisms and Feminist Records), the presentation “Si una mujer avanza, ningún hombre retrocede” (If a woman goes forward, no man backs away) was delivered by the Memoria Abierta Insumisas (Unsubmissive) project team. The presenters were Maisa Bascuas, Victoria Daona and Nancy Lucero, with moderation by Alejandra Oberti, project coordinator in conjunction with Veronica Torras.