“Our only revenge is to be happy”: emotions, feelings and the H.I.J.O.S. militancy in Spaces of memory

Abstract

The present work is inserted in the debates about the place that the emotions and feelings take in the constitution and lastingness of the collective action, understanding them as result of sociocultural constructions, whose approach allows to understand in a more complex way diverse sociopolitical phenomena.The objective is to analyze the senses, emotions and feelings that are constructed between the militants of the group H.I.J.O.S. from the participation in the Memory Space ExESMA, in relation with the own space, the group and its members, as also towards the authorities of the National Government between 2003 and 2015. From a qualitative methodology, the perspective of the actors will be prioritized from testimonies recovered from primary and secondary sources. Through the analysis of this experience, it will become clear how feelings such as injustice, impunity and pain are collectively processed and transformed from the organization, while at the same time redefining its link with the State.