This dossier, Topographies of crime and memory, coordinated by Vicente Sánchez-Biosca, analyzes the mutations of mass crime scenes that were converted into places of memory..

To this end, the authors have not only chosen spaces integrated in very different cultures and traditions (Japan, Argentina, Chile, European cities, Cambodia, Spain), but have also examined the different layers of resignification through which the place has passed.

Despite the very different religious, ethnic, cultural and heritage particularities, there is a recognizable trend towards the globalization of practices of representation of atrocities, didactic functions, human rights culture and heritage appropriation, among others.

Vicente Sánchez-Biosca is Professor of Audiovisual Communication at the University of Valencia, member of the Critical Theory Research Group and, together with Anacleto Ferrer, principal investigator of the project "Contemporary Representations of Perpetrators of Mass Violence: Concepts, Narratives and Images".

You can purchase the dossier on the publications page of the Universitat.