scholarly journals Crafting ecologies of existence: More than human community making in Colombian textile craftivism

2021 ◽  
pp. 251484862110301
Author(s):  
Maddalena Tacchetti ◽  
Natalia Quiceno Toro ◽  
Dimitris Papadopoulos ◽  
María Puig de la Bellacasa
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Ecological Perspective ◽  
Human Community

Based on ethnographic work with several women’s textile making collectives in Colombia, this article approaches their crafting practices as everyday doings of socio-ecological reparation, in the midst of social and environmental devastation caused by the armed conflict. Rather than focusing on the relevance of their activities for political activism and historical memory, an ecological perspective allows us to emphasise their work as a mundane, more than social process of communal regeneration. We discuss how women in these collectives, after painful and violent displacements, craft new ecologies of existence: relations and interdependencies within more than human worlds that cultivate new modes of care and attention, values and sensibilities in precarious living spaces. Ecological reparation is an everyday, vital, ongoing practice essential for community resurgence and for re-establishing collectivities that sustain liveable worlds.

scholarly journals Compulsion to Identity as a Technology of Hybrid War (Situation of Donbass)

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Identity Management ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Civic Identity ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Conflict Zone ◽  
Hybrid War ◽  
The One

The article discusses the problem of the identity of the population in the conflict zone in the Donbas. It is possible to speak about the existing civic identity if the person realizes his or her belonging to the state, whose citizen he or she is by status, all the attributes of statehood acquire valuable significance, and the “territory of life” shared with other fellow citizens is perceived as the Motherland. The authorities of the DPR and the LPR force citizens on their territory to abandon the identity of a citizen of Ukraine and to acquire the identity of their quasi-republics. For the success of the Ukrainian troops, it is important that the population of the territory where hostilities take place, identify themselves with Ukraine, consider themselves Ukrainians. This is the main task of identity politics. It is emphasized that in the conditions of a shortage of Ukrainian identity among the population in the area of hostilities, it is necessary to help stimulate the formation (strengthening) of such an identity. In identity politics identity management is important. In the conflict zone in the Donbas, civilian identities of the parties in hostile relations compete. It is argued that the desire to influence the identity of the residents of Donbass in order to form a certain identity among them is part of a hybrid war. If the residents in the combat zone have a shortage of Ukrainian identity, then it is necessary to promote the strengthening or formation of such an identity. Identity enforcement techniques can be propaganda, informational, economic, as well as violent, with the use of weapons. One of the methods of struggle for identity is the work of civil society structures, including volunteers. One of the means of implementation of identity politics is an appeal to historical memory. In the management of identity, discursive practices, events of a cultural, scientific, and sporting nature are important. Of great importance for determining identity is the line of demarcation, when the checkpoint divides the territory into “its” and “other”. The location of a person on the one or the other side of the roadblock improves the personality and relevant life practices. The conclusion is formulated that the success of the struggle for the identity of a Ukrainian citizen among the residents of Donbass will help resolve the armed conflict in the east of our country.

scholarly journals Memorias del conflicto armado en el corregimiento sur-oriental de Fusagasugá (1990-2003)

2019 ◽  
pp. 297-338
Author(s):  
David Fernando Tinjacá Gómez ◽  
Wilmer Alexander Usaquén Cobos
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Current Period ◽  
The People ◽  
Armed Actors

Colombia ha sufrido por más de cinco décadas un conflicto armado interno que ha generado profundos impactos en la población civil, en particular para los campesinos. Históricamente la región del Sumapaz ha sido uno de los epicentros de esta confrontación que, durante el periodo comprendido entre 1990-2003, adquirió características particulares debido a la expansión de los actores armados enfrentados. En este artículo se analiza cómo se desarrolló ese enfrentamiento en el corregimiento suroriental de Fusagasugá; con este objetivo, se hace énfasis en los relatos de las personas que vivieron los hechos, para así proyectar el problema de la memoria histórica en la región campesina del Sumapaz. Lo anterior permite observar las experiencias de los sujetos frente al fenómeno de la violencia y cómo son recordados estos, de cara a un periodo de posacuerdo, momento en el que se hace necesario conocer y dar sentido a las memorias de quienes sufrieron los mayores impactos de nuestra guerra. Abstract: Colombia has suffered an armed conflict for more than five decades with deep impacts on civilians, particularly the peasantry. Historically, the Sumapaz region has been one of the epicenters of this confrontation, with very particular features from 1990 to 2003, due to the expansion of armed actors. This paper analyzes how the confrontation took place in the southeastern corregimiento of Fusagasugá, from the perspective of the people who experienced it firsthand, in order to contribute to the historical memory of the peasant region of Sumapaz. This exercise allows to observe the divergent interpretations that exist about the same phenomenon of violence, which is useful facing the current period of post agreement, where it is necessary to know and make sense of the memories of those who suffered the greatest impacts of our war. Keywords: Armed conflict, FARC, memories, Sumapaz.

scholarly journals Las prácticas paramilitares en el Alto Nordeste Antioqueño

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Edward Villamil Carvajal
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Internal Armed Conflict ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
El Alto ◽  
Violencia Politica

El artículo aborda el análisis de una modalidad particular del fenómeno paramilitar en Colombia como son las prácticas paramilitares, comprendidas como la constitución de redes o alianzas criminales funcionales, cambiantes y coyunturales en la planeación, coordinación y perpetración de graves violaciones a los DDHH y al DIH. Se toma como epicentro del análisis el proceso de violencia política ocurrido entre los años 1982-1997 en el Alto Nordeste Antioqueño (conformado por los municipios de Remedios y Segovia), paradigmático de esta trayectoria particular del fenómeno paramilitar. La caracterización y análisis de las prácticas paramilitares amplían la comprensión acerca del proceso de conformación, expansión y consolidación de las estructuras paramilitares que se agruparon en la confederación de las Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC).Palabras Clave: Conflicto armado interno, Violencia política, Memoria histórica, Remedios y Segovia, Paramilitarismo ABSTRACTPARAMILITARY PRACTICES IN THE ALTO NORDESTE ANTIOQUEÑOThe article deals with the analysis of a particular modality of the paramilitary phenomenon in Colombia, such as paramilitary practices, including the constitution of functional, changing and conjunctural criminal networks or alliances in the planning, coordination and perpetration of serious violations of human rights and IHL . The epicenter of the analysis is the political violence that occurred between 1982 and 1997 in the Alto Nordeste Antioquioqueño (made up of the municipalities of Remedios and Segovia), paradigmatic of this particular trajectory of the paramilitary phenomenon. The characterization and analysis of paramilitary practices broaden the understanding of the process of conformation, expansion and consolidation of the paramilitary structures that were grouped in the confederation of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC).Key Words: Internal armed conflict, Political violence, Historical memory, Remedios and Segovia, Paramilitarism

scholarly journals “Memoria histórica razonada”. Una propuesta incluyente para las víctimas del conflicto armado interno colombiano

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 15-52
Author(s):  
Juan Felipe Rueda Arenas
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Forced Displacement ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Internal Armed Conflict ◽  
Life Trajectories ◽  
The Social

“Memoria histórica razonada” es una propuesta teórico-metodológica que busca la participación activa de las víctimas del conflicto armado interno en la construcción de la historia colombiana. El artículo es un aporte conceptual de un estudio de trayectorias de vida de víctimas del desplazamiento forzado llevado a cabo en Bucaramanga, Colombia. Para tal caso, se realiza un acercamiento al contexto histórico del origen y dinámica de la historia, la memoria y la oralidad en la historiografía. Se evidencia el debate teórico sobre memoria e historia realizado por autores de las ciencias sociales y humanas. Y se muestran trabajos participativos de memorias de víctimas del conflicto armado interno colombiano. Como resultado, se pretende que mediante la construcción de memoria histórica razonada se comprendan relatos de personas desplazadas a través de un conocimiento complementario entre víctimas e investigadores, generándose instrumentos contra marginalidades, negacionismos, silencios y olvidos impuestos por centros de poder.Palabras claves: “memoria histórica razonada”, “memoria histórica”, víctimas, historia, memoria, historiografía, historia oral.Reasoned Historical Memory.  A Proposal to Include Victims of Colombian Internal Armed ConflictAbstractThis Reasoned Historical Memory is a theoretical-methodological proposal that seeks the active participation of victims of internal armed conflict in the construction of Colombian history. While The article is part of a conceptual contribution to a study from life trajectories of victims of forced displacement held in Bucaramanga city.For such a case, It makes an approach into the historical context of the origin and dynamic of history, memory and orality in historiography. It demonstrates the theoretical debate about memory and history made by authors in the social sciences and humanities. Also, the participatory memories from the victims of Colombian internal armed conflict are showed. As a result, it is intended that through the construction of historical memory are understood reasoned accounts of people displaced through a complementary knowledge between victims and researchers, generating instruments against marginalities denials, silence and forgetfulness imposed by centers of power.  Keywords: "reasoned historical memory","historical memory", victims, memory, history, historiography. oral history.

Impactos, resistencias y tensiones de las comunidades afrodescendientes del Pacífico colombiano al interior del conflicto armado interno: análisis desde la reconstrucción de memoria histórica. / Impacts, resistances and tensions of african descent ...

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (06) ◽  
pp. 37-65
Author(s):  
Clara Patricia Pantoja Bohórquez
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sociedad Civil

Este artículo presenta un análisis de las resistencias, impactos y tensiones de dos Comunidades Afrocolombianas que habitan el Pacífico Colombiano, que han sido víctimas colectivas del conflicto armado interno que vive el país. Los casos fueron reconstruidos a partir de un proceso de Memoria Histórica implementado en la región Pacífica del departamento de Nariño durante los años 2011 y 2012, en el cual se desarrolló un ejercicio riguroso de investigación-intervención de carácter cualitativo y participativo, que después fue sistematizado y validado con las comunidades. El tema adquiere relevancia en la actualidad, dado el discurso de posconflicto que viene instalándose en Colombia y el impulso que tanto a nivel institucional como por parte de la sociedad civil, se le otorga a las iniciativas de memoria, como herramienta para los procesos de verdad, justicia y reparación de las víctimas. This paper analyzes the resistances, impacts and tensions in two Afro-Colombian communities who inhabit the Colombian Pacific coast, which have been collective victims of the armed conflict in the country. The cases were reve from a process of Historical Memory implemented in the Pacific region of Nariño during 2011 and 2012, from a qualitative and participatory research and intervention, which was later systematized and validated with communities. The subject becomes relevant today, whitin the current post-conflict speech and the significance given to Memory initiatives as a tool for the processes of truth, justice and reparation for victims.

scholarly journals PEOPLE'S NARRATIVE TRADITION ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE POLISH COLONY OF PYSHIVKA IN THE SPRING OF 1944

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 46-76
Author(s):  
Yevhen LUNYO
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Liberation ◽  
Economic Success ◽  
Folk Narrative ◽  
Moral Content ◽  
Narrative Tradition ◽  
The One

It is investigated how the Ukrainian folk-narrative tradition in various genre records of the beginning of the 21st century reflects and comprehends one of the numerous events of the Polish-Ukrainian armed conflict of the 1940s in the western Ukrainian lands - the destruction of the Polish colony Pyshivka by the Ukrainian armed underground in the spring of 1944. It is stated that the folk epic memory of Ukrainians reproduces the event of sixty years ago quite clearly, in various aspects and numerous details. It is noted that the narrative tradition of understanding the destruction of Pyshivka takes place in two planes - socio-political, military on the one hand, and Christian-moral humanistic - on the other. However, they do not always act in their pure separate essence: either one or the other. It is traced from the stories that in one narrator, they can be organically combined with a certain dominance of one or another component. It was stated that the narrators of the socio-political direction - primarily participants and eyewitnesses, reflected and comprehended the specific event of the destruction of Pyshivka in a broader aspect of the Polish-Ukrainian confrontation under the influence of information about the hostile intention of Poles against their village, as well as stories about previous similar Polish actions against Ukrainian villages. At the same time, there is a tendency that the farther the narrators are from the realities of the national liberation struggle, were not its eyewitnesses, and are not more deeply interested in it from printed or other sources, the more their understanding acquires a humanistic and moral content. They sincerely regret and mourn what happened, show a subconscious complex of guilt, and hence focus more on peaceful, friendly relations before the war, sympathetically speak of the high moral and spiritual qualities and higher economic success of the Polish colonists. Keywords: narrative tradition, Polish-Ukrainian armed conflict, historical memory, Pyshivka, Yavoriv region.

scholarly journals NOVEMBER DAYS OF 1918 IN PRZEMYSL

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 163-176
Author(s):  
Myroslav FITSULIAK
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
National Council ◽  
The Future

This paper intends to analyze events of the beginning of the Polish-Ukrainian War 1918–1919, which are controversial in Ukrainian and foreign historiography. The formation of the Ukrainian authorities in Przemysl, the activities of the county Ukrainian National Council (UNRada), and its measures to establish the coexistence of Ukrainian, Jewish, and Polish peoples are revealed. The loss of Ukrainian positions in Przemysl because of aggression by the numerical superiority of Polish forces is shown. These events played a significant role in the course of events in the future Polish-Ukrainian armed confrontation. The opposing forces had different approaches to an agreement during the unfolding of the armed conflict. The mention of the events of the November Uprising in the western outpost of Ukraine – Przemysl, will restore the historical memory of Ukrainians. It is very relevant during the current situation in the East of Ukraine. Keywords ZUNR, Przemysl, UNRada, armed confrontation, Polish aggression.

Reconstruction of Historical Memory In The Midst Of the Armed Conflict in Colombia

2016 ◽  
pp. 356-373
Author(s):  
María Angélica Garzón ◽  
Paula A. Timcke Rey
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Institutional Framework ◽  
The Political ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Public Entity

This chapter aims to reflect upon the construction of historical memory in Colombia from an institutional framework and in the midst of an armed conflict that does not cease. The objective is to discuss the difficulties that emerge in this type of research when conducted under the political, conceptual and methodological parameters of a public entity. Therefore, three contexts that influenced the development of the research are analysed (institutional, social-political and scientific) and then the limits and difficulties that these implicate are exposed. Finally, a series of recommendations are presented as well as the learned lessons that should represent a contribution for future work related with the reconstruction of historical memory in contexts of violence and armed conflict.

scholarly journals Memory, Forgetfulness and Narration: Reminiscence to Recall Victims of the Armed Conflict in Colombia

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Alejandro Riascos Guerrero
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Psychological Intervention ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Internal Armed Conflict ◽  
The People ◽  
Violent Acts

As a result of years of internal armed conflict in Colombia, the people who suffered and still suffer from conditions of war, recognized as victims or survivors, even support the effects of traumatic events in violent acts. Countless efforts from research and psychological intervention, face the demands of the subjects that make up the populations of victims who are spread throughout the country. This paper presents preliminary, some reflections resulting from the literature review of research papers working to build historical memory as an interventional device and research that allows to establish parameters really necessary to build peace in the territory Colombian, as well as approximate the conditions and needs that victims have the psychic level subjects and the communities where they are organized. A critical reflection is proposed, starting from the psychoanalysis theory, Which Allows to formulate a position for research in Differentiated esta field.

Living with Ghosts

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 180-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Garrard-Burnett
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Ongoing Relationship ◽  
The Dead ◽  
War Dead

Although more than three decades have passed since Guatemala’s 36-year-long civil war, bereavement and posttraumatic stress continue to affect many survivors of that dark era, especially since it is only now that a few of the most infamous perpetrators of the violence have recently, if briefly, been brought to justice. The Maya were especially severely affected by the massacres and disappearances of the armed conflict. Because the ongoing relationship between the dead and the living that Maya value requires that the deceased receive proper burial, the exhumation and reburial of war dead have had cathartic effects for the survivors and have actively contributed to the construction of historical memory. Aunque han pasado más de tres décadas desde la guerra civil de 36 años en Guatemala, la aflicción por la pérdida de seres queridos y el estrés post traumático continúan afectando a muchos sobrevivientes de esa era oscura, especialmente porque es sólo hasta hace poco que algunos de los más infames autores de la violencia han sido llevados ante los trbunales aunque sólo brevemente. Los mayas especialmente fueron gravemente afectados por las masacres y las desapariciones del conflicto armado. Ya que la relación existente entre los muertos y los vivos que los mayas valoran requiere que los muertos reciban una digna sepultura, la exhumación y el nuevo entierro de los muertos en la guerra han tenido efectos catárticos en los sobrevivientes y han contribuido activamente a construir la memoria histórica.

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