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Building memory in the midst of conflict: the Historical Memory Group of Colombia

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dc.creatorRiaño P.spa
dc.creatorUribe Alarcon, Maria Victoriaspa
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-25T23:59:48Z
dc.date.available2020-05-25T23:59:48Z
dc.date.created2017spa
dc.description.abstractBetween 2007 and 2013, we were part of the Historical Memory Group (GMH), a research group comprised of researchers and experts working under the auspices of the National Commission for Reparation and Reconciliation of Colombia. The GMH was tasked under Law 975 with producing a report on the origins and causes of the armed conflict in Colombia. Despite the dominant right-wing political context and the ongoing armed conflict, the GMH enjoyed intellectual and operative autonomy in its research and articulated his work around a discourse that positioned the victims as a reason for the exercise of historical memory and a factor of social legitimation. This way of producing knowledge opened new avenues for the construction of more inclusive historical accounts. This article interrogates the dynamics and reasons that served as the basis for the GMH's special sensitivity towards victims; the notion of victim implicit in the research work, with its inclusions and exclusions; and the dilemmas that arose in the group's work. We argue that the GMH can be characterized as an agent of knowledge production about a violent past that was able to articulate comprehensive and plural narratives about violence in Colombia. However, this work was limited by state and institutional dynamics that sought to domesticate and instrumentalize the voices of those who had been systematically silenced. A review of the GMH's work suggests three critical dilemmas that constrain truth-telling mechanisms: the dilemma between opening spaces for truth telling and the safety of those providing testimony; the dilemma around whose victims' voices gain authority in the documentation process; and the risks of institutionalizing a discourse around victims that bestows narrative capital to state and societal institutions. © 2017 University of San Diego. All rights reserved.spa
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dc.identifier.issn1212117
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/23111
dc.language.isospaspa
dc.publisherUniversity of San Diegospa
dc.relation.citationEndPage23
dc.relation.citationIssueNo. 50
dc.relation.citationStartPage9
dc.relation.citationTitleRevista de Estudios Colombianos
dc.relation.ispartofRevista de Estudios Colombianos, ISSN:1212117,No.50 (2017); pp. 9-23spa
dc.relation.urihttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85045560097&partnerID=40&md5=0400e9e26b8da790753932e5b7b52b9cspa
dc.rights.accesRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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dc.source.instnameinstname:Universidad del Rosariospa
dc.source.reponamereponame:Repositorio Institucional EdocURspa
dc.subject.keywordColombiaspa
dc.subject.keywordHistorical memoryspa
dc.subject.keywordHuman rights discoursespa
dc.subject.keywordPlural narrativesspa
dc.subject.keywordVictims' discoursesspa
dc.titleBuilding memory in the midst of conflict: the Historical Memory Group of Colombiaspa
dc.title.TranslatedTitleConstruyendo memoria en medio del conflicto: el Grupo de Memoria Histórica de Colombiaspa
dc.typearticleeng
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