En los zapatos del que sufre. Aproximaciones epistemológicas y éticas a los ex Centros Clandestinos de Detención. O ¿con qué calzado visitar un campo de concentración?

Abstract

This article deals with the problem of access to the former clandestine detention centers (CDC) of the Argentinean dictatorship as a research object using the shoe as a key analytical figure. The access to these places is meant as a metaphor of the ethical and epis- temological approaches to them, but also in a literal sense: how, when and until what point to step the foot on them? The shoe is proposed as a metonymic figure that stands for individuality and subjectivity, as well as for their destruction, drawing on cultural traditions and uses in memorial art, particularly in reference to the Holocaust. The walking and the shoe are explored as keys to the knowledge and experience of space, in an approach that acknowledges the value of practices, affects and ethics, as opposed to the cartographical imagination or the planning paradigm.