The resilient memory and the cryptographic amnesia: the case of impoverished Latin-American youth

Abstract

How is it possible such degree that social violence is exerted on young people, existing at the same time structural unemployment and worrying dropout rates? Moreover, how these factors affect the construction of the social network? This paper attempts to answer some of these questions. The concept of cryptographic memory is introduced to understand the process of breaking of the traditional social contract that gave substantial place to young people as part of the memory and the generational transmission. It is opposite to the concept of resilient memory that establishes fraternal imaginary, essential to the social, and that neoliberal violence and the State terrorism try to weaken or nullify.