Tag: Collective Memory

Primera plana, El Informador. 22 de abril de 1992.

Urban Catastrophes and Collective Memory

In recent months I published an article that analyzes and interprets how Mexican journalists commemorated an urban catastrophe. This article, which was originated in Carolyn Kitch’s Social Memory class at Temple University, explains the ways in which journalists use different concepts and practices to commemorate a tragic event. On April 22, 1992, nine explosions destroyed a neighborhood populated by working- classes… Read more →