Silence and Punish: Forgetting as an Apparatus of Torture. Deconstruction, Solidarity, and Popular Education as Modes of Resistance

Abstract

The following is a collaboration between Nicolás, an imprisoned student and teacher from the Argentinian educational collective Cuenteros, Verseros y Poetas [Storytellers, Tale-tellers and Poets], and Oliver, Joey, and Lucy, three British scholars who work in European universities and research topics related to imprisonment in Latin America. It is the result of solidarity work between Argentine lawyer Alberto Sarlo, cartonera (cardboard book) publishers from Mexico and Brazil, and academics at British universities. Sarlo is an activist who founded Cuenteros, Verseros y Poetas, which has run philosophy, literature, and boxing classes in Unit 23 of Florencio Varela Prison in Buenos Aires Province since 2010.