ABSTRACT
This chapter returns us to the Plaza de Mayo to (re)consider our findings with the book’s three primary assertions in mind: that commemorative literacies: 1) mobilized memories of the past to advance present-day concerns amidst perceived crises; 2) worked spatially toward different labors of justice as resistance, reconciliation, and recovery; and 3) and resonated transnationally. By doing so, we can see how commemorative literacies and labors of justice are not enacted in isolation, separate or above the politics of contestation and struggle; they are forged through these politics. We then turn to an example in the United States, the annual holiday that commemorates the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to explore the potential of a commemorative literacies and labors of justice framework. We conclude with thoughts about how a commemorative ethics stance might inform the ways we map political space where the remembrance of events like the Argentine period of state terror is linked to justice struggles elsewhere.
