Voyage, sancocho and river Memory and forgetting on armed conflict in Pance, Cali

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18046/recs.i28.3268

Keywords:

Memory, Armed Conflict, Ecosystem, Community, Colombia

Abstract

This article explores the memoirs of entrepreneurs from the Pance River, in Cali, Colombia, by using an ethnographic perspective. The journey through their memories emphasizes two moments: the violence they experienced during three confrontations between guerrilla groups and the police, which left civilians in the crossfire, and the link with the socio-environmental projects in the region. The interviewees reminiscences
tend to make invisible their experiences in the armed conflict in order to protect the survival of the community, of their ecosystems, and of the traditional Sunday trips to the river; these are their main sources of living in the present and future. This study offers significant clues on the hegemonies of the memoirs and on how some daily experiences within the armed conflict became culturally trivial.

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Author Biographies

  • Inés Marcela Medina-Vargas, Universidad del Valle

    Profesional en Estudios Sociales y Políticos de la Universidad del Valle. Magíster en Estudios Sociales y Políticos de la Universidad Icesi. Investigadora en ciencias sociales.

  • Yamileth Bolaños-Martínez, Universidad Icesi

    Psicóloga y magíster en Estudios Sociales y Políticos de la Universidad Icesi. Docente hora cátedra de la misma universidad.

  • Luis Fernando Barón, Universidad Icesi

    Doctor en Ciencias de la Información por la Universidad de Washington (Estados Unidos). Profesor e investigador de la Universidad Icesi (Colombia), con estudios en Comunicación y Antropología.

Published

2019-06-19

How to Cite

Medina-Vargas, I. M., Bolaños-Martínez, Y., & Barón, L. F. (2019). Voyage, sancocho and river Memory and forgetting on armed conflict in Pance, Cali. Revista CS, (28), 47-85. https://doi.org/10.18046/recs.i28.3268