Visual violence: counterinsurgency and state terrorism as factors of the Salvadoran civil war.

Authors

  • José Alfredo Ramírez Fuentes Universidad de El Salvador

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5377/rhcs.v0i10.6618

Keywords:

Terrorism, State, Violence, Photography, Memory.

Abstract

Technology and history had been together since a long time, but as professional historians, just in very few occasions we think in the relationship of reality, technology and our craft. This essay attempt to give some insights in how historical analysis can be done with sources that are unconventional. As historians we are used to read written sources, photos are only for illustrate our works but, what will happen if we actually read photos as sources on their own? How do we do that? Taken this reflection as a point of departure this text will rotate around three topics: State terrorism, photography and memory.

Revista de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, n° 10, july-december 2017: 139-166

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Author Biography

José Alfredo Ramírez Fuentes, Universidad de El Salvador

Licenciado y maestro en historia por la Universidad de El Salvador y por la Universidad de Indiana Bloomington, respectivamente. Actualmente es profesor e investigador del Departamento de Historia de la Facultad de Ciencias y Humanidades de la Universidad de El Salvador. Ha publicado diferentes trabajos, entre los que sobresalen sus estudios sobre el período previo a la guerra civil salvadoreña y la reforma universitaria de los años sesenta en El Salvador

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Published

2017-12-12

How to Cite

Ramírez Fuentes, J. A. (2017). Visual violence: counterinsurgency and state terrorism as factors of the Salvadoran civil war. Revista De Humanidades Y Ciencias Sociales, (10), 139–166. https://doi.org/10.5377/rhcs.v0i10.6618

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No. 10 (2017)

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