Memoria histórica, lugar de memoria y comunidad discursiva: materiales para el abordaje de un caso de archivo

In this artícle we aim to discuss some notions about the construction process onhistorical memory in order to focus in a particular example of lieux de mémoire.In the first place, we analize critical concepts like lieux de mémoire, historicalmemory and the political uses of Memory, according to the hegemonicconstruction. Then, we pay attention to a crucial concept to understand themeaning of archive: lieux de mémoire. We organize the article by consideringPierre Nora´s theory, looking forward to discuss the archives generation processin a material, symbolic and functional sense. We expose these ideas bydemonstrating a methodology to analize memory archives, by taking as anexample the DIPBA file (Buenos Aires Province Police Direction of IntelligenceArchive). Some relevant conclussions close the article