THE DOSAGE OF THE PAST: MEMORY IN CHILE’S OFFICIAL REPARATION POLICIES

Abstract Due to the violence committed during the dictatorship, the Chilean State had to create reparation measures that would refund national dignity and the victims. In this context, within the scope of Transitional Justice, political-legal devices were created to consolidate social memory. The aim of the present study is to understand how memory is built in reparation policies. A discourse analysis of the rules that regulate reparations in Chile was carried out, resulting in four interpretative repertoires: a reparation repertoire as an official truth, an institutions repertoire, a file repertoire and a celebration repertoire. We conclude that these policies configure the memory of the dictatorship in Chile as a steganography in a series of pieces that have been dosed by the rules. In this sense, the institutionalization of remembrance has defined who, how, when and where to remember in Chile.