Memory and New Ways of Knowing Narratives of the Armed Conflict in Colombia
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Blanca Yaneth González Pinzón is an independent researcher, committed to transforming pedagogy and curricula. She is a founding member of the Reading and Writing Network in Higher Education of Colombia and External Pedagogical Advisor to the Colombian Association of Universities.
Theresa Lillis is Professor Emeritus of English Language and Applied Linguistics at The Open University, UK. She has published widely on academic, grassroots and professional writing and the politics of participation in knowledge-making.
Memory and New Ways of Knowing Narratives of the Armed Conflict in Colombia
This is an inspirational work, with a strong combination of nuanced theorizing and compelling data in the form of testimonios. The book invites readers to think about how narrative works towards building memory, creating change and imagining new futures.
Bronwyn T. Williams, University of Louisville, USA
<p>This is a rigorous, multidisciplinary work which will be a reference point among studies seeking to explore the lived experiences of armed conflict. Built from the accounts of survivors in multiple forms – spoken and written accounts, film, textiles – the book provides a counterhegemonic perspective which works ethically and aesthetically towards the goal of ‘non repetition’ of violence and provides hope for a peaceful future.</p>
Nora Solari, International Educational Consultant and Expert in Language, Literature and Latin Pedagogy, Argentina
A book which is both academically rigorous and emotionally moving, documenting the lived experiences of the ongoing Colombian armed conflict. The book draws on multiple voices to underline the hopes for building peace and reconciliation, as well as restorative and social justice.
Melba Libia Cárdenas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
<p>The individual memories in this book form a collective memory that strengthens the processes of reconciliation and justice in Colombia. They call upon us, as a society, to assume a historical responsibility for making visible the survivors who faced conflict with stark resilience.</p>
Shima Pardo, Journalist and Program Coordinator of the Feminist Movement "Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres", Colombia
<p>Despite the multitude of perspectives from the victims, the reader is left with the important impression that individuals and groups, who normally are marginalized and forgotten when war history is written, now have become included in the history about the long-lasting civil war in Colombia. This is so, even if the narratives they leave behind are quite varied and open for interpretation. Moreover, the victims have also been able to find a certain degree of personal healing through the testimonies they have given as a part of this process.</p>
Wenche Iren Hauge, Journal of Peace Research, 2025
This book is a collaborative project which centres on the testimonios of more than 100 survivors of the harsh realities of the 80-year Colombian armed conflict, drawing on multiple disciplinary areas and practices: linguistics, philology and linguistics, education, journalism, academia, art and film, 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 is open access under a CC BY ND licence.
This book is an interdisciplinary project centering on the testimonios of survivors in order to understand experiences of violence arising from the armed conflict in Colombia. The concepts of Testimony, Narrative and Memory are mobilized across the chapters to explore how survivors reconstruct experiences and imagine new ways of knowing and being.
Map
Contributors
Acknowledgements
About the Production of this Book
Acronyms
Introduction
Part 1: Historical Context of the Colombian Armed Conflict and Theoretical Approaches to Analysing its Narratives
Chapter 1. Luis Eduardo Celis: Colombia, Eight Decades in Search of Peace and Democracy
Chapter 2. Blanca Yaneth González Pinzón and Claudia Bungard: Theoretical Approaches to Analysing Conflict Narratives
Part 2: Narratives of the Colombian Armed Conflict
Chapter 3. Blanca Yaneth González Pinzón: Narrative as an Emotional Resource for the Empowerment of the Survivors of the Colombian Armed Conflict
Chapter 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)
Chapter 5. Cecilia Traslaviña González: Narratives to Transform War Imaginaries in Colombia: An Animation Workshop with Ex-Guerrilla Children
Chapter 6. Claudia Bungard: Testimonios of Armed Conflict Survivors: Participants in Narrative Workshops in Medellín
Chapter 7. Mario Ramírez-Orozco: The Memory of the Future: The Voice of FARC-EP Reincorporated Combatants in the Construction of Peace Imaginaries
Chapter 8. Emilia Perassi: Weaving Memory and Unweaving Trauma: Textile Narratives on the Conflict in Colombia
Part 3: Reflections
Chapter 9. Theresa Lillis: Voicing Experiences of Conflict and Violence: Placed, Dis-Placed and Re-Placed Resources
Chapter 10. José Vicente Arizmendi Correa: Chronos and Kairos: A Time to Resist and A Time to Speak Out
Chapter 11. Blanca Yaneth González Pinzón: Closing Thoughts
Index
Unique multidisciplinary work exploring the memories, testimonies and narratives of survivors of armed conflict
This is an inspirational work, with a strong combination of nuanced theorizing and compelling data in the form of testimonios. The book invites readers to think about how narrative works towards building memory, creating change and imagining new futures.
Bronwyn T. Williams, University of Louisville, USA
<p>This is a rigorous, multidisciplinary work which will be a reference point among studies seeking to explore the lived experiences of armed conflict. Built from the accounts of survivors in multiple forms – spoken and written accounts, film, textiles – the book provides a counterhegemonic perspective which works ethically and aesthetically towards the goal of ‘non repetition’ of violence and provides hope for a peaceful future.</p>
Nora Solari, International Educational Consultant and Expert in Language, Literature and Latin Pedagogy, Argentina
A book which is both academically rigorous and emotionally moving, documenting the lived experiences of the ongoing Colombian armed conflict. The book draws on multiple voices to underline the hopes for building peace and reconciliation, as well as restorative and social justice.
Melba Libia Cárdenas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
<p>The individual memories in this book form a collective memory that strengthens the processes of reconciliation and justice in Colombia. They call upon us, as a society, to assume a historical responsibility for making visible the survivors who faced conflict with stark resilience.</p>
Shima Pardo, Journalist and Program Coordinator of the Feminist Movement "Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres", Colombia
<p>Despite the multitude of perspectives from the victims, the reader is left with the important impression that individuals and groups, who normally are marginalized and forgotten when war history is written, now have become included in the history about the long-lasting civil war in Colombia. This is so, even if the narratives they leave behind are quite varied and open for interpretation. Moreover, the victims have also been able to find a certain degree of personal healing through the testimonies they have given as a part of this process.</p>
Wenche Iren Hauge, Journal of Peace Research, 2025
This book is a collaborative project which centres on the testimonios of more than 100 survivors of the harsh realities of the 80-year Colombian armed conflict, drawing on multiple disciplinary areas and practices: linguistics, philology and linguistics, education, journalism, academia, art and film, 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 is open access under a CC BY ND licence.
This book is an interdisciplinary project centering on the testimonios of survivors in order to understand experiences of violence arising from the armed conflict in Colombia. The concepts of Testimony, Narrative and Memory are mobilized across the chapters to explore how survivors reconstruct experiences and imagine new ways of knowing and being.
Map
Contributors
Acknowledgements
About the Production of this Book
Acronyms
Introduction
Part 1: Historical Context of the Colombian Armed Conflict and Theoretical Approaches to Analysing its Narratives
Chapter 1. Luis Eduardo Celis: Colombia, Eight Decades in Search of Peace and Democracy
Chapter 2. Blanca Yaneth González Pinzón and Claudia Bungard: Theoretical Approaches to Analysing Conflict Narratives
Part 2: Narratives of the Colombian Armed Conflict
Chapter 3. Blanca Yaneth González Pinzón: Narrative as an Emotional Resource for the Empowerment of the Survivors of the Colombian Armed Conflict
Chapter 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)
Chapter 5. Cecilia Traslaviña González: Narratives to Transform War Imaginaries in Colombia: An Animation Workshop with Ex-Guerrilla Children
Chapter 6. Claudia Bungard: Testimonios of Armed Conflict Survivors: Participants in Narrative Workshops in Medellín
Chapter 7. Mario Ramírez-Orozco: The Memory of the Future: The Voice of FARC-EP Reincorporated Combatants in the Construction of Peace Imaginaries
Chapter 8. Emilia Perassi: Weaving Memory and Unweaving Trauma: Textile Narratives on the Conflict in Colombia
Part 3: Reflections
Chapter 9. Theresa Lillis: Voicing Experiences of Conflict and Violence: Placed, Dis-Placed and Re-Placed Resources
Chapter 10. José Vicente Arizmendi Correa: Chronos and Kairos: A Time to Resist and A Time to Speak Out
Chapter 11. Blanca Yaneth González Pinzón: Closing Thoughts
Index
Unique multidisciplinary work exploring the memories, testimonies and narratives of survivors of armed conflict
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Blanca Yaneth González Pinzón is an independent researcher, committed to transforming pedagogy and curricula. She is a founding member of the Reading and Writing Network in Higher Education of Colombia and External Pedagogical Advisor to the Colombian Association of Universities.
Theresa Lillis is Professor Emeritus of English Language and Applied Linguistics at The Open University, UK. She has published widely on academic, grassroots and professional writing and the politics of participation in knowledge-making.