Contrarian Speech: The Poetics, Politics and Ethics of Contrarian Speech

The symposium ‘Against the Grain: The Ethics, Poetics and Politics of Contrarian Speech’ was held as a collaborative event in June 2019. It involved several members of DeLC, in collaboration with the research project "Poetry and Politics" and the University of Amsterdam.

State Crimes in Latin America 1962-2012: Collection H at the CAMeNA

Collection H at the CAMeNA brings together several archives that document state crimes in Latin America between 1962 and 2012: political persecution, torture, enforced disappearance, and politically motivated assassinations. The collection contains extensive material on the resistance to persecution, and on the fight for justice, by social movements and families.

A Whistleblower’s Archive: General José Francisco Gallardo’s Documents at the CAMeNA

The collection E at the CAMeNA was donated by Brigadier General José Francisco Gallardo, who blew the whistle on abuses by the Mexican army. Gallardo was persecuted, and imprisoned for eight years. He sets an example on dissent and resistance from a position of entanglement within a powerful institution.

Facets of Knowledge and Experience: Donated Documentary Collections at the CAMeNA

The third post in the series on The Aliveness of Memory at the CAMeNA in Mexico City introduces the three documentary collections assembled in Fund D, ‘Donations’. Donated by Carlos Fazio, Raquel Gutiérrez and Hector Salinas, the collections cover topics such as state terrorism, armed resistance movements, political imprisonment, and the 1988 elections in Mexico.

Gregorio Selser's Obstinate Pursuit of Curiosity: His Research and Personal Archive and Documents at the CAMeNA

The collections A, B and C at the CAMeNA consist of Gregorio Selser's research archive, compiled between 1938 and 2008, and his personal documents. Both show his obstinate pursuit of a curiosity and a sense of social responsibility that placed him in the middle of the struggles and upheavals of his times.

The Aliveness of Memory: The Academic Centre for the Memory of Nuestra América (CAMeNA)

This is the first in a series of blog posts on the Academic Centre for the Memory of Nuestra América (CAMeNA) at the Autonomous University of Mexico City. The series of posts presents the work of the CAMeNA and its publicly accessible archival collections. This first post is a general presentation of the CAMeNA and its history.

Day of the Disappeared: Remembering Mexico's 43 Abducted Students

Resistances and Alternatives to Violence: The Muralism of Javier Espinal

The little we hear about the Central American country of Honduras usually focuses on brutal, ubiquitous, vaguely inexplicable acts of violence, and about the impunity of the perpetrators. Rarely do we get to engage with those who resist and with those who build alternatives, or with their imaginaries and cosmovisions. Honduran painter and muralist Javier Espinal created possibilities for such an encounter during a visit to the U.K. in the first months of 2015. He gave talks at several universities and painted murals with communities in Toxteth, Liverpool, and lrlam, Salford.