Managing Testimony and Administrating Victims

TRAMA

This book analyzes the implementation of Law 975 in Colombia, known as the Justice and Peace Law, and proposes a critical view of the transitional scenario in Colombia from 2005 onwards. The author analyzes three aspects of the law: 1) The process of negotiation with paramilitary groups; 2) The constitution of the Group Memoria Histórica (Historic Memory) in Colombia and 3) The process of a 2007 law that was finally not passed. The book contains interviews with key actors in the justice and peace process in Colombia. The author analyses the contradictions, tensions, ambiguities and paradoxes that define the practices of such actors. This book highlights that a critical view of this kind of transitional scenario is indispensable to determine steps towards a just and peaceful society.

SOMMARIO

1. The Origins of Victimization and the Administration of War in ColmbiaVictims CountOrigins, Antecedents, Caues or Triggers?Exception as DemocracyThe State in Permanent Emergency2. Justice and Peace in times of Impunity and WarReinsertion without Demobilization: From the AUCs to the BACRIMsVictimization in Post-Conflict Narratives3. Voice, Testimony, Truth, and MemoryThe Memory of Victims: Between Silence and SilencingThe Memory of the Perpetrators and Judicial TruthThe Limits of EnunciationHistorical Memory without Judicial TruthThe Emblematic Status of Testimony and Public MemoryFrom Pain to Knowledge: The Limits of Representation4. Maintaining Exclusion5. Conclusion

AUTORE

Juan Pablo Aranguren Romero is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Andes, Colombia. He holds an MA in Social Anthropology and a PhD in Social Sciences. His research focuses on the intersections of body, suffering, and political violence. Aranguren is author of Cuerpos al límite: tortura, subjetividad y memoria en Colombia ( 2016) and Las inscripciones de la guerra en el cuerpo de los jóvenes combatientes (2011). 

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9783319458946
• Collana: Memory Politics and Transitional Justice
• Dimensioni: 210 x 148 mm Ø 2989 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: XV, 130 p.
• Pagine Arabe: 130
• Pagine Romane: xv