Between sea, mountain and iris around the world: an approach to the Ushuaia Prison Museum

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2020.165724

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Prisons, Memory, Museum, Culture, Art

Abstract

“Los invitamos a caminar por los pasillos estrechos, asomarse a las celdas para imaginar cómo habría sido la vida en la cárcel”. This is an invitation to Ushuaia Museo Prison (Argentina) on its website. Inaugurated in 1902 and transferred from San Juan del Salvamento’s military prison, Ushuaia’s prison has a long trajectory. It is currently part of a historical, cultural, and tourist arena in the city just for being a museum. Documentaries and books in Argentina as well as their characteristics imply a certain correlation between tourism and this place. Coming from an old trial prison to become a museological and tourist place, it revitalizes memory. What were the necessary arrangements for such change? This article presents a correlation between two main events: the deactivation of the prison and the new function as a museum.

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  • Natalia Negretti, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

    PhD student in Social Sciences (Unicamp) in the field of Gender Studies | PAGU. Doctoral internship at Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA, Argentina) with CAPES Scholarship | Red de Macro Universidades de America Latina y Caribe. The master's dissertation "Madá and Lena entrecruzadas, dois dramas em trama: entre percursos numa tragédia social e uma contituição possível" (PUC-SP), guided by Rosemary Segurado, analyzed how prison agents and female inmates bonded based on two life stories. The doctorate, under the guidance of Isadora Lins França, focusing on the emergence of “elderly person experience homelessness” as a political matter in São Paulo, analyzing paths, passages and institutions. Email: natalia_negretti@yahoo.com.br

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2020-08-24

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Vol. 5 No. 1 (2020)

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Negretti, Natalia. 2020. “Between Sea, Mountain and Iris Around the World: An Approach to the Ushuaia Prison Museum”. GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal 5 (1). https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2020.165724.