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Imagining the future in the midst of conflict in Magdalena Medio, Colombia

Authors: Jaramillo Marín, Jefferson; Parrado Pardo, Érika Paola; Rodríguez Arias, Mery Edith; Solarte Rodríguez, Mario Roberto; Jaramillo Marín, Jefferson; Parrado Pardo, Érika Paola; Rodríguez Arias, Mery Edith; +1 Authors

Imagining the future in the midst of conflict in Magdalena Medio, Colombia

Abstract

Los ejercicios institucionales y comunitarios sobre las memorias del conflicto colombiano han adquirido protagonismo en las dos últimas décadas. En medio de las luces y sombras de este boom memorial, en este artículo de reflexión se plantea la pregunta: ¿en qué sentido el recurso a la memoria permite comprender las maneras locales de navegar presentes convulsos e imaginar escenarios de futuro individuales y colectivos cuando se ha sido víctima de desaparición o desplazamiento forzados? La investigación de la cual deriva el artículo se basó en un trabajo cualitativo, interdisciplinario y participativo desarrollado entre 2014 y 2017 en la región del Magdalena Medio (Colombia), con personas desplazadas y familiares de desaparecidos. La experiencia de campo y el diálogo con los estudios sociales y culturales de la memoria permiten vislumbrar que, aunque los presentes de las personas con las que conversamos están llenos de incertidumbre, la imaginación social del porvenir es un recurso cotidiano para enfrentar contextos afectados o fracturados por violencias diversas. La principal conclusión es que las memorias que se reconocen en su potencial transformador abogan por la activación de la esperanza local y la ilusión comunitaria, más que por ser solo ejercicios reconstructivos de las afectaciones sufridas.

Institutional and community exercises on the memories of the Colombian conflict have gained prominence in the last two decades. In the midst of the lights and shadows of this memorial boom, this reflection article poses the question: in what sense does the recourse to memory allow us to understand local ways of navigating the convulsive present and imagining individual and collective future scenarios when one has been the victim of disappearance or forced displacement? The research from which the article derives was based on a qualitative, interdisciplinary and participatory work developed between 2014 and 2017 in the Magdalena Medio region (Middle Magdalena Region, Colombia) with displaced persons and relatives of the disappeared. The field experience and the dialogue with the social and cultural studies of memory allow us to perceive that, although the present of the people with whom we talk are full of uncertainty, the social imagination of the future is a daily resource to face contexts affected or fractured by various types of violence. The main conclusion is that the memories that are recognized in their transformative potential advocate for the activation of local hope and community illusion, rather than being only reconstructive exercises of the affections suffered.

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Imaginación del futuro, Transforming potential of memory, Armed conflict, Transformación social, Imagination of the future, Conflicto armado, Memoria colectiva, Futuro, Potencial transformador de la memoria, Collective memory, Future, Social transformation

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