Social Science Research Council

For three years, the SSRC administered a research and training program on Collective Memory of Repression: Comparative Perspectives on Democratization Processes in Latin America's Southern Cone and Peru. This program, which received its core funding from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, encouraged scholarship that examined societal memory of past repression in contemporary Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay from the perspective of several disciplines. Click here for more information on the program.

The primary component of the program was a research and training fellowship for junior researchers in the region, which centered around a series of workshops designed to:

This project was an initiative of the Council's Regional Advisory Panel for Latin America and was coordinated by Professor Elizabeth Jelin of the Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social and CONICET and Professor Carlos Iván Degregori of the Institute of Peruvian Studies.

In conjunction with this program, the SSRC established a library dedicated to serving the growing international scholarly community focused on the topic of collective memories of repression. The library was developed in collaboration with the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and is currently housed in the Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social. An online searchable bibliographic database is accessible via the Internet.

One of the results of the Collective Memory Program is that the SSRC reached an agreement with Siglo XXI Publishers to produce a multi-volume series consisting of work produced by program fellows and faculty. The series will be released simultaneously in Madrid and Buenos Aires and distributed throughout the world. Ten volumes have been published.