Representational distance between expert narration and local stories: a reflection on the politics of evidence in the field of historical memory

Visit of Professor Gabriel Ruiz Romero

The presented work analyzes the epistemological limits of the narration product of the specialized works on memory of the violent past. It is a dialectical exercise between the anthropology of violence and hermeneutic phenomenology, that proposes a self-critical look from inside the expert system. We propose the existence of a necessary representational distance (not contingent) between the story as a form of local expression and its translation into a narration that is projected outside the context in which the local stories have been produced. The article concludes that, rather than the very experience of violence represented in such stories, it is the logic of the expert system that draws the contours of the politics of evidence in the field of memory.

Visit of Felix Houphouet-Boigny University professors in Abidjan, Ivory Coast

Breakfast with the Dean of the Communication Sciences Faculty Mrs.. Mercedes del Hoyo and the Director of the Chair Mrs. Carmen Caffarel. From left to right, Mr. KOUAME Germain, of Spanish culture, expert in Pais Vasco; Mrs. Agnès's, of Spanish Literature of the Twentieth Century, Juan Goytisolo and specialist Dr. Djoko Luis Stéphane Kouadio, of Spanish Literature of the nineteenth century, expert in Benito Perez Galdos.

Later, the arrival in our library, with her director Magdalena Nebot and our director of the Chair Mrs.. Carmen Caffarel.