Tamayo Gomez, C orcid.org/0000-0001-7576-7562 (2022) Victims’ collective memory and transitional justice in post-conflict Colombia: The case of the March of Light. Memory Studies, 15 (2). pp. 376-389. ISSN 1750-6980
Abstract
The construction of victims’ collective memory in post-conflict Colombia is crucial to understanding the violent past and its social consequences. This article argues that victims’ initiatives, such as the March of Light, are facilitating an active role of local communities in the configuration of their memory regimes after the war. Addressing a participative action research approach, this article’s significance rests in the idea that Colombian victims’ groups from Eastern Antioquia are establishing three particular types of collective memory developing the March of Light every week. It establishes that this effort is a powerful instrument to claim truth and reparation in Colombia, helping the ongoing process of transitional justice in the country. It demonstrates that the tension between official and non-official narratives of collective memory is an essential part of transitional justice scenarios in which the clash of values defines positions of power, visibility and recognition inside contexts of social transition.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2019. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Memory Studies. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. |
Keywords: | collective memory; memory regimes; social justice; transitional justice; truth; victims |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 12 Aug 2019 08:51 |
Last Modified: | 18 Jul 2022 14:15 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1750698019882055 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:149541 |