When the file is in the witness: documentation in scenarios of chronic insecurity
Through an exchange between members of community organizations documenting human rights violations in northwest Colombia and northern Uganda, this article examines strategies for building memory where an individual or a group creates a safe social space to give testimony and re-story-telling acts of...
- Autores:
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Riaño-Alcalá, Pilar
Baines, Erin
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2012
- Institución:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Repositorio:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Idioma:
- spa
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/74768
- Acceso en línea:
- https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/74768
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/39245/
- Palabra clave:
- archivo y justicia transicional
historical memory
documentation
filing and transitional justice
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
| Summary: | Through an exchange between members of community organizations documenting human rights violations in northwest Colombia and northern Uganda, this article examines strategies for building memory where an individual or a group creates a safe social space to give testimony and re-story-telling acts of violence or resistance. In scenarios of chronic insecurity, such acts constitute a reservoir of living documents that preserve the memories, testify, reduce impunity and convey the sense or "veracity" of the survivors. The living file overturns conventional assumptions about what is a document or testimony in the field of transitional justice. It also introduces new interdisci plinary tools with which to learn from and listen to survivors in a different way. |
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