SPACES OF VIOLENCE, PLACES OF MEMORY AND SITES OF ELOCUTION FOR MEDIATION AND SPACE IN CO NTEMPORARY LATINAMERICAN ABORIGINAL POLITICS

SALAMANCA VILLAMIZAR CARLOS

Belgrado

Conferencia; Conferencias; 2019

Instituto de Etnología y Antropología. Facultad de Filosofía. Universidad de Belgrado

The connections among the analyses of practices of memory around contemporary political violence, identity policies and practices of representation are relatively recent and entail several challenges. For six years, I have been carrying out a comparative research in Argentina, Colombia and Guatemala that intertwines space, violence and memory. Through this presentation, I will cover first the theoretical and conceptual background I suggest to approach this intertwining. Second, I will present some of the advances and challenges I have come across in the development of the research, among these: (a) The need to develop a jeu-d?echelles, a game of scales, that allows us to integrate embodied individual suffering and a broader understanding about mass violence. (b) The elaboration of narratives of violence as a problem itself. (c) The adoption of a relational stance on the debates between memory and history. Towards the end, I will make reference to the projections for the following years.