The two sides of patrimonialization: local memory and poetic absence

Abstract

This article reflects on the processes of patrimonialization witnessed in the last decades in Latin America, which have two sides.
The first is related to a process of decolonization and decentralization of historical knowledge, which has meant the emergence of cultural identity regimes and the vindication of some local memories through architectures. However, in a second part, it is analyzed how these processes of patrimonialization contain a logic that includes touristification, mercantilization, fetish and the poetry of an absence.