Celia del Palacio Montiel D. in History from UNAM, member of the National System of Researchers level 3, Member of the Mexican Academy of Science, Member of the Pen Club Mexico. Researcher and full-time professor at the Center for the Study of Culture and Communication of the Universidad Veracruzana, of which she was coordinator-founder (2009-2018). Her research topics have been: violence against journalists and representations of violence in the current subnational press; regional journalism centuries ago; and the role of the media in the media. xix and xxHer academic production is contained in indexed articles, as well as in chapters in collective works and books: nine as sole author and ten as coordinator. Her academic production is contained in indexed articles, as well as dissemination and popularization; in chapters in collective works; and books: nine as sole author and ten as coordinator. She has published four historical novels about women and a book of short stories.

Realidades socioculturales

“Their Gazes in Our Memory”. Graffiti as a Discursive Strategy as a Response to Forced Disappearances in the Córdoba-Orizaba Region

  • Celia del Palacio Montiel
  • David Torres Garcia

This article is concerned with presenting the murals about the young people who disappeared in the Orizaba-Córdoba region of the state of Veracruz, where forced disappearance has been a serious problem for years. The work elaborated by the artist Aldo Daniel Hernández, Fise, is analyzed as an act of resistance by the mothers of the Collective, as a struggle against oblivion and impunity, placing it in its context and analyzing the reactions of authorities and society. The analysis is based on the theoretical framework of the sociology of art proposed by García Canclini (2006) and taken up by Salazar (2011) for murals in Ciudad Juárez, focusing on the organizational process for the creation of such works, the ideological framework that may have conditioned them and the visual discursive strategies applied. A discursive struggle becomes visible between victims who seek to make injustice visible and preserve memory and other actors who seek to silence them.