Body, memory and cyberspace in Latin America

Parting from the ever-growing importance of Internet in Latin America and the degree in which political institutions, knowledge, genre, and collective action are affected by its use, considerations on the changes in body politics implied in this social practice were introduced. The aim was to raise the issue concerning the importance of these links in the sensibilities’ constitution. Consequently, this paper described the existing studies on the links between memory, body politics and cyberspace, depicting the state of the art on body, memory and cyberspace in Latin American social sciences, making a conceptual map on the existing connections between body, memory and emotions, and cyberspace. Then, the diverse methodological approaches were considered. Finally, a possible agenda for Latin American social sciences was configured, making a statement on the need of “emotional memory” approximations due to its links with devices for sensitivities’ regulation which result in a pillar for social domination.