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Landscapes of Memory

Concentration Camps and Drought in Northeastern Brazil

Eastern Connecticut State University

Concentration camps were established in the Northeastern Brazilian state of Ceará in 1932 as a response to the displacement of thousands by severe drought. The experience of the camps, as reported by those who survived them, was one of privation and death. Residents of Senador Pompeu, the site of one such camp, commemorate the experience with an annual procession to the cemetery and are attempting to have the ruins of the camp declared "heritage." Marking such places as heritage is in many ways an intervention not only economically, as heritage tourism, but through the active critical processes of conscientization, communicating the violence that persists in contemporary society.

Key Words: Concentration camps • Drought refugees • Northeastern Brazil • Heritage • Conscientization

Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 36, No. 5, 21-38 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0094582X09341977


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