Discussion: Toward a Decolonial Dangerous Memory of Individual and Collective Self-Empowerment

This chapter contains a discussion of the results of the data analysis in the previous chapter. In the first part, I will interpret the data from the perspective of Johann Baptist Metz’s concept of dangerous memory. This concept served as the main sensitizing concept in the data analysis; that is, it helped identify meaningful aspects in the interviews collected for this study. As shown below, the concept represents a plausible starting point for understanding the meaning of the memory of Marielle Franco in the present, but there are also limits to the concept. For this reason, I will also explore new ways of interpreting the memory of Franco that go beyond Metz. My reading of the memory of Franco in this chapter will form the basis for a decolonial understanding of dangerous memory in Chap. 5 .