This book is a collaborative project which centres on the testimonios of more than a hundred survivors of the harsh realities of the 80-year Colombian armed conflict, drawing on multiple disciplinary areas and practices: linguistics, education, journalism, academia, art and film, philology and linguistics, education, literature, human rights, sociology, urban geography, cosmogony and grassroots activism. Using extracts from testimonios in multiple forms – oral, written, film, textiles – and mobilising the concepts of Testimony, Narrative and Memory, the book explores how survivors of all ages configure and reconfigure their experiences, worldviews and identities, striving towards the building of new knowledges which will help ensure the non-repetition of violence. The book will be of interest to all who are committed to understanding conflict and post-conflict societies in the search for peace.
This book will be open access under a CC BY ND licence.
Table of Content
Map
Contributors
Acknowledgements
About Production of this Book
Acronyms
Introduction
Part 1: Historical Context of the Colombian Armed Conflict and Theoretical Approaches to Analysing its Narratives
1. Luis Eduardo Celis: Colombia: Eight Decades in Search of Peace and Democracy
2. Blanca Yaneth González Pinzón and Claudia Bungard: Theoretical Approaches to Analysing Conflict Narratives
Part 2: Narratives of the Colombian Armed Conflict
3. Blanca Yaneth González Pinzón: Narrative as an Emotional Resource for the Empowerment of Survivors of the Colombian Armed Conflict
4. José Navia Lame: ‘Walking the Word’ with the Nasa People: A Perspective from the Narrative of ‘The Strength of the Umbilical Cord’ (La fuerza del ombligo)
5. Cecilia Traslaviña González: Narratives to Transform War Imaginaries in Colombia: An Animation Workshop with Ex-Guerrilla Children
6. Claudia Bungard: Testimonios of Armed Conflict Survivors, Participants in Narrative Workshops in Medellín
7. Mario Ramírez Orozco: Memory of the Future: The Voice of FARC-Ep Reincorporated Combatants in the Construction of Peace Imaginaries
8. Emilia Perassi: Weaving Memory and Unweaving Trauma: Textile Narratives on the Conflict in Colombia
Part 3: Final Reflections
9. Theresa Lillis: Voicing Experiences of Conflict and Violence: Placed, Dis-Placed and Re-Placed Resources
10. José Vicente Arizmendi: Chronos and Kairos: Time to Resist and Time to Speak Out
11. Blanca Yaneth González Pinzón: Closing Thoughts
Index
About the author
Blanca Yaneth González Pinzón is an Independent researcher, Director of the interdisciplinary research group in education and human processes, and External pedagogical advisor to the Colombian Association of Universities.
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