<i>Nunca Invisibles</i>: Insurgent Memory and Self-representation by Female Ex-combatants in Colombia

Elston, Cherilyn

doi:10.1080/02690055.2020.1800254

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“…Cherilyn Elston examines the concept of insurgent memory in her article titled "Nunca Invisibles: Insurgent Memory and Self-Representation by Female Ex-Combatants in Colombia." 29 Her research investigates the development of this idea in Colombia, with a specific focus on the 2018 documentary Nunca Invisibles: Mujeres Farianas, Adiós a la guerra [Never Invisible: Women of the FARC, Farewell to War] (dir. Liliany Obando) which centres on former female members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).…”

Section: Perspectives On Memory and Traumamentioning

confidence: 99%

Kurdish Insurgents and Postgeneration: „Big Village” as an Interactive Memory Work

Edemen

2024

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The Kurdish people, lacking a sovereign state of their own, reside within the boundaries of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, where they are subjected to the rules and identities of these nations, often facing restrictions on their cultural expression. This situation has disabled their entry into the filmmaking, with documentaries becoming their preferred medium due to its cost-effectiveness and simpler technical demands. These documentaries typically delve into the Kurds’ painful historical experiences. Big Village (2020), directed by Beri Shalmashi and Lyangelo Vazquez, stands out as the first Kurdish interactive web documentary (i-doc). It intricately weaves personal and social narratives, focusing on several families and a Kurdish insurgent group from Eastern Kurdistan. The i-doc explores the stories of the former residents of Gewredê, a village that has since vanished. It uniquely blends old photos and video clips to craft its narrative. This study aims to analyse Big Village through the lens of the insurgents’ memories, the inherited memories of their children, and the use of archival materials, examining how an interactive documentary can effectively communicate historical traumas to modern viewers.

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Section: Perspectives On Memory and Traumamentioning

confidence: 99%

Kurdish Insurgents and Postgeneration: „Big Village” as an Interactive Memory Work

Edemen

2024

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“…Sobre todo, fueron combatientes como Olga Marín y Victoria Sandino quienes empezaron a realizar acciones a partir de la década de los noventa para impulsar estas cuestiones dentro de la organización. En paralelo, otros procesos de feminismos poslucha armada se conformaron desde los años noventa, como el de las mujeres excombatientes en El Salvador (Herrera 2010) o el del colectivo de Mujeres Excombatientes de las Insurgencias en Colombia (Elston 2020).…”

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¿Un feminismo à la fariana? El continuum de la militancia en el posacuerdo de paz en Colombia

Avoine

2023

Colomb. int.

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Objetivo/contexto: en este artículo propongo el concepto de continuum de la militancia para analizar la transformación de las luchas políticas de las mujeres exguerrilleras de las FARC-EP en el posacuerdo de paz, con un énfasis particular en el nororiente del país. A partir de sus narrativas, indago sobre la transición de la lucha armada al combate feminista, así como las tensiones y desafíos que se dibujan en este camino. Metodología: me centro en tres métodos particulares, el diario feminista de campo, las entrevistas biográficas y las observaciones participantes en dos trabajos de campo conducidos en 2019 y 2022 en el nororiente colombiano. Conclusiones: el artículo confirma la necesidad de comprender la militancia posacuerdo de paz como un continuum entre la lucha armada y los diferentes combates feministas, de mujer y de género. Además, demuestra la importancia de analizar la militancia de las exguerrilleras de las FARC-EP a partir de la identidad insurgente. Finalmente, concluye que el feminismo insurgente, a pesar de las tensiones políticas que conlleva, es un ejemplo práctico de este continuum de la militancia. Originalidad: el artículo tiene tres contribuciones principales: teoriza los elementos conceptuales del continuum de la militancia, aporta al conocimiento sobre la construcción del feminismo insurgente en el nororiente colombiano y contribuye al entendimiento de las tensiones políticas en torno a la transformación de las luchas armadas en acciones feministas noviolentas.

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“…Echoing this shift in memory studies and chiming with Hamilton’s (2010) call for the inclusion of positive emotions such as ‘pleasure and promise’ (p. 269) within memories of left activism, recent scholarship on Colombia has similarly emphasised how female ex-combatant testimonies do not solely reinforce discourses of loss and trauma but also narrate their experiences in insurgent groups using tropes of happiness, joy and pleasure. While such tropes are considered taboo in mainstream transitional justice scholarship, which expects repentance and forgiveness from former combatants (Nieto Valdivieso, 2016: 79), their use can also be seen as forming part of an attempt to reconstitute the idea of an insurgent memory in the country, as well as challenge mainstream demobilisation and reintegration discourses that frame ex-combatants through a language of victimhood rather than as political subjects (Elston, 2020: 71–72). While Calvo Ocampo is not an ex-combatant testimony, Hablarán de mí can also be situated in this context, where alongside the narrative of loss and mourning outlined above there is also a very overt attempt to recover the positive feelings connected to left activism in Colombia.…”

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Left-wing melancholia and activist memories of the Colombian conflict in Fabiola Calvo Ocampo’s Hablarán de mí

Elston

2022

Memory Studies

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Dialoguing with recent memory studies scholarship that has questioned the field’s predominant focus on violence, victimhood and trauma, this article explores the emergence of forms of memory in Colombia that alongside commemorating the armed conflict also incorporate positive memories of the past and memories of left activism. To do so, it analyses Colombian journalist and academic, Fabiola Calvo Ocampo’s testimonial text Hablarán de mí as a key example of recent transitional justice and memory discourses emerging out of a new peacebuilding context in the country. Although detailing a history of trauma and a melancholic vision of the catastrophic destruction of the left in Colombia, the article reads Calvo Ocampo’s testimony through Enzo Traverso’s reading of left-wing melancholia to suggest that the text recovers a memory of the vanquished as part of an attempt to restore a left-activist memory of past historical struggles, which can be mobilised for the current peacebuilding scenario.

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Nunca Invisibles: Insurgent Memory and Self-representation by Female Ex-combatants in Colombia

Cited by 5 publications

References 14 publications

Kurdish Insurgents and Postgeneration: „Big Village” as an Interactive Memory Work

Kurdish Insurgents and Postgeneration: „Big Village” as an Interactive Memory Work

¿Un feminismo à la fariana? El continuum de la militancia en el posacuerdo de paz en Colombia

Left-wing melancholia and activist memories of the Colombian conflict in Fabiola Calvo Ocampo’s Hablarán de mí

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