(Un)Dwell: The Spatial Inscription of the Forced Disappearance in the House
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https://doi.org/10.7203/KAM.13.12985Keywords:
Space, Kidnapping, Disappearance, Argentina, military dictatorship
Abstract
Despite that the forced disappearance of people is often associated with strange, distant and even unimaginable spaces, in Argentina -during the military dictatorship (1976-1983)- the kidnappings happened most of the time in the same houses where the disappeared lived. In this article, I will explore how the spatio-temporal dynamics of the house were reconfigured after the kidnapping. The article addresses, in the first part, the different traces leaved in the house after the kidnapping took place. In the second part, I propose the concept of (un)dwell in order to explore the ways in which the occupation of the house was deeply reconfigured. In the third part, I analyze the impact in the temporality of the house. Finally, I examine why, even before the kidnapping, the houses were already out of the “expected” order, hosting “heterogeneous” families, “disguised” spaces and forbidden objects.
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