Abstract

Memorialsdedicated to victims ofhuman rights viocontext of the Popular Unity ( 1970 1973). To this end, lations have been extensively analyzed within transitional justice propose four analytica categorie of cultural producton contexts. This article explores a type of memorialthat has received about the people, for the people, with the people limited theoreticalconceptualization andlittle empirical attention: and from the people With examples of dscourses and the funerary memorial.Located in cemeteries, these memorials works produced in different felds, I wi hg light how occupy an intermediary space between life and death, which gives transversal the topics of the deb te and the cultural pro them an emotional componentand endows them with distinctive ductio of the tme were Unlike prior scholarshp that em features of great significance. Funerary memorialsserve as spaphasiz the limitations of he absence of a guiding line o ces for negotiating religious,political, and civic elements,and act cutual policy, argue that the imultaneous pre ence o as sites of mobilization,conflict, andencounter. The presence of dfferent references was a stmulatng fac or f r the deba human remains within them unequivocally subverts the dictatorial tes and allowed the development of various intiatives i logic of denial, concealment, and humiliationof the victims. In this the cultural field. In line with this, my article aims to: con study, we have selected sixfunerary memorials built tohouse the tribute to overcoming the common trend of approaching remains of historical leaders from Spain and Chile. These sites of the cutural policy of the Popular Uniy wi h the bias o tribute eloquently reflect the type oftransition andthe sensitivity faiure or insuficiency; to draw the attention on the lim of new democracies toward memory politicsandtransitional just tions of reducing the cultura polcy to the sole g ve tice. Funerary memorials notonly honor historical figures but also nments action; and o provide eements to relatvize the reflect contemporary societies'commitment to truth, justice, and notion of closed and internally coherent posi ons wthin reparation in post-dictatorial contexts.