Septembre 2013 marque le quarantième anniversaire du coup d'Etat militaire de Pinochet au Chili et de la chute du président Allende. Beaucoup de Chiliens, fuyant la répression, se sont alors réfugiés en France où ils se sont implantés. En 2003, au moment du 30e anniversaire du coup d'Etat, Eric Facon réalise la série Hijos del exilio. Il a rencontré ces fils et filles d'exilés à Paris et à Santiago, où la moitié d'entre eux était retournée. Ce travail a été exposé au Mercato Centrale di Roma dans le cadre du Festival Internazionale di Roma en 2003, puis la même année au Museo de Arte Contemporaneo à Santiago du Chili. Ces 25 photographies ont été acquises, en 2009, par la Cité Internationale de l'Histoire de l'Immigration à Paris. Dix ans après, que sont-ils devenus ? Créaphis a le projet de publier ces photos dans la petite collection Format passeport. Le photographe a retrouvé ces enfants d'exilés et de nouveau recueilli leurs récits.

This volume offers critical perspectives on memories of political and socioeconomic ‘transitions’ that took place between the 1970s and 1990s across the globe and that inaugurated the end of the Cold War. The essays respond to a wealth of recent works of literature, film, theatre, and other media in different languages that rethink the transformations of those decades in light of present-day crises. The authors scrutinize the enduring silences produced by established frameworks of memory and time and explore the mnemonic practices that challenge these frameworks by positing radical ambivalence or by articulating new perspectives and subjectivities. As a whole, the volume contributes to current debates and theory-making in critical memory studies by reflecting on how the changing recollection of transitions constitutes a response to the crisis of memory and time regimes, and how remembering these times as crises renders visible continuities between this past and the present. It is a valuable resource for academics, students, practitioners, and general readers interested in exploring the dynamics of memory in post-authoritarian societies.

With a focus on the object and where it is situated, in time (memory) and space (mobility), Memory, Mobility, and Material Culture embodies a multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approach. The chapters track the movement of the objects and their owner(s), within and between continents, countries, cities, and families. Objects have always been considered with an eye to their worth – economic, aesthetic, and/or functional. If that worth is diminished, their meaning and value disappear, they are just things. Yet things can still fulfil functions in our daily lives; they hold symbolic potential, from personal memory triggers, to focal points of public ritual and religion; from collectors’ obsession, to symbols of loss, displacement, and violence. By bringing into dialogue the work of specialists in ethnology, art history, architecture, and design; literature, languages, cultures, and heritage studies, this volume considers how displaced memory – the memory of refugees, migrants, and their descendants; of those who have moved from the countryside to the city; of those who have faced personal upheaval and profound social change; those who have been forced into exile or experienced major personal or collective loss – can become embodied in material culture. This book is important reading to those interested in cultural and social history and cultural studies.