Memories of insilio. When history creates bridges of orality between the past and the present.

Abstract

Since 2020, some members of the research team "Oral history and recent history of Córdoba" based in the history area of the María Saleme de Burnichon Research Center of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, began a collective work with some members of the Association of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared for political reasons of Córdoba and the Provincial Archive of Memory (APM), to make visible the experience of insilio. Throughout this work -which has not yet concluded- different forms of intervention have emerged in which historical science has provided us with useful tools to characterize the insiliation phenomenon based on oral interviews and other sources.
The insiliadxs were those who, having had some kind of political participation in the 1960s-1970s, were persecuted from the implementation of State terrorism because of their consideration as "subversives" (Águila, Garaño and Scattizza, 2016). The depth of the terror generated from the genocidal practices of the State on these people who survived the persecution within the national borders, permeated deeply into their subjectivity and their way of remembering, forgetting and silencing that experience. That is why our work as historians was fundamental to generate historical entity to their experiences, until now little explored.