Geolocalization as practice of monumentality- How the human rights movements in Argentina and Uruguay reappropriate the city.

In 1976, teacher and activist Elena Quinteros was kidnapped and later disappeared by military forces in Montevideo, Uruguay. According to an investigation by the newspaper Brecha in 2016, her apartment is still being held by the military (Touriño, 2016). In commemoration, neighbours placed a name tag on the apartment’s doorbell (see figure 1). Due to […]